hey, so you are the one visiting today ... :-)

Susan and I (and two other engineers) work together on this project, she's the graphic designer doing all front/back end user interface design.

The red errorMessage shown on startup is indeed just a "toolTip" property on "new doc" button, but I manually dispatch a roll-over event for that button and forced ToolTipManager to show the tip immidately.

After the message was shown, I changed the "toolTip" for "new doc" button back to normal message ("click here to create a new document"), so next time when user rollover the button it won't display a red errorMessage again.

As to the notion of "Self-guided application", yes, I believe it's very do-able, one can even implement a "GuideManager" to sequence the time and places
where tips should be displayed, there are infinite possibilities with Flex 2 :-)


Jeremy.


On 6/27/06, Tim Hoff < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Susan Song or Jeremy Lu,

I liked the RiaNotes entry in the Developer Derby Showcase.  The MDI approach has generated new ideas.  For the min/max/close buttons, it looks like you extended Panel.   Or maybe you went further up.  I was wondering how you went about displaying the errorMessage at startup.  Showing and hiding a message like that would be a good technique for a self-guided application.  Care to share?

Sincerely,
Tim Hoff


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