ToolTip help - PLEASE..

[imoree]

Hello Everyone;

i saw pauseonError video for matt navarre showing his fmresults and i loved the auto tooltips when we was searching and wondered how i could go about doing that.

EG.

if the user hovers over a field it shows the tooltip automagically. [ * here you can enter in the zip code *]

thanks,

-ian

[Lee Smith]

http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/edit_layout.10.29.html

[doughemi]

In layout mode, select a field and choose Set Tooltip... from the Format menu. In the one solution that I used these, experienced users found them extremely annoying, and I had to do a two-step with duplicate layouts (one with tooltips, and one without) and slews of If(globals::tooltipsOn;...) statements in navigation scripts.

[jbante]

Couldn't you use slews of "If ( globals::tooltipsON ; ... )" in the tooltip calculations themselves?

In layout mode, select a field and choose Set Tooltip... from the Format menu. In the one solution that I used these, experienced users found them extremely annoying, and I had to do a two-step with duplicate layouts (one with tooltips, and one without) and slews of If(globals::tooltipsOn;...) statements in navigation scripts.

[doughemi]

Where's the foreheadslap smiley when I need it!

[imoree]

OK. thanks. THought it was simpler, but i guess that is it.

[Lee Smith]

Could you supply a link to the video you referred to.

[jbante]

I think this is probably the video imoree was referring to:

[imoree]

thanks Jbante. JUst seeing this. It was a great video wasnt it!

Still dont know if Matt has tried to use vlist technique yet though.

Edited March 9, 2012 by Lee Smith
Didn't need the quote

[Fitch]

Virtual lists aren't the answer to all things, Ian. That said... yes, Matt's solution uses a virtual list, but interestingly uses repeating fields to display the results.

Matt and I have done projects where tooltips are stored as records, and a startup script loads them into global variables. The tooltips are then entered with a custom function as, e.g., Tip[1] etc. You can then enable/disable them by either building that into the custom function's calc, or triggering a script to clear out the global variable.

It's pretty slick, but tooltips change so seldom it is generally not worth the trouble.

[imoree]

Virtual lists aren't the answer to all things, Ian. That said... yes, Matt's solution uses a virtual list, but interestingly uses repeating fields to display the results.

Matt and I have done projects where tooltips are stored as records, and a startup script loads them into global variables. The tooltips are then entered with a custom function as, e.g., Tip[1] etc. You can then enable/disable them by either building that into the custom function's calc, or triggering a script to clear out the global variable.

It's pretty slick, but tooltips change so seldom it is generally not worth the trouble.

Thanks Fitch for your kind words of at least how its done, now to the drawing board on Figuring it out and sample files.

: )

[LaRetta]

Ray Cologon also has a demo of the technique here http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos8/demo812.html

[imoree]

Pulling the link above LaRetta sent, but lost on this ??

can someone explain these symbols & why to use them?

Let([

Vn = ValueCount(Tips::gLibrary);

P1 = Position(¶ & Tips::gLibrary; ¶ & ID & " "; 1; 1);

P2 = P1 + 1 + Length(ID);

P3 = Position(¶ & Tips::gLibrary & ¶; ¶; P2; 1);

T1 = Middle(Tips::gLibrary; P2; P3 - P2 - 1);

T2 = If(p1 > 0; Substitute(T1; ["°"; """]; ["‡"; "¶"]; ["·"; " "]))];

Evaluate(T2)

)

[LaRetta]

Hi Ian,

They are used as placeholders because they won't be found in any of the text being evaluated. By switching to strange character, it is 'marking' a location safely. :^)

[imoree]

Hi Ian, They are used as placeholders because they won't be found in any of the text being evaluated. By switching to strange character, it is 'marking' a location safely. :^)

OHH. great, now i can run it as a script to make out exactly whats going on here. I just keep getting these "¶ª¨ªøˆ•¶˚∆∂˚" messed up thinking

they are specific to a function ! : )

thanks LaRetta