Calc for having a tooltip appear while hovering over a button?

[Rich S]

Howdy, all:

 

I have dozens of buttons scattered throughout my solution and it's a pain to have to manually change each one's tooltip text when a change arises. For example, there's a COPY button on each of the 12 layouts available to the user but if I need to change the tooltip text for one I need to change them all one at a time. Welcome to Tedious City.

 

Is there a way to create a (global) calc so all the COPY buttons show the same tooltip text when a mouse cursor hovers over them? It's tricky because I know I can create a calc using Get (ActiveLayoutObjectName) for a _field_, but for a _button_? No such luck as far as I can tell.

 

I tried creating a global text field (stored as a calc) with the tooltip label text stored in it; the tooltip's calc box references it but the text doesn't appear, so once again I'm stumped. :S

 

TIA for your help!

[doughemi]

Use a global ($$) variable to hold the tooltip text.  Set the variable in a startup script, and call it in the tooltip.

[jbante]

Another possibility that won't add things to your data viewer would be to create a custom function to hold your tooltip text, and reference that instead.

[comment]

I tried creating a global text field (stored as a calc) with the tooltip label text stored in it; the tooltip's calc box references it but the text doesn't appear,

 

Not sure if that's the best method (or why the global needs to be a calc), but I believe it should work so you might want to check your implementation.