Newbie here. Please be gentle and details are MUCH appreciate. Nothing is too basic or explicit for the likes of me.
I want to do some tutorial/help text where I want various words embedded in the text to allow me to have a number of functions: Tooltip - so that when you hover over a particular word in the text I can put up a tooltip. Also I would like the tooltip to potentially be something more complex than simple text. Specifically I may have an icon in the tooltip that you can click on that would play a sound. I looked into the event stuff that you can add to the <a> anchor tag. That only seems to work if you click on the text marked with the <a> tag, but doesn't seem to deliver an event if you simply hover over it. Alternatively I thought there might be a way to intermingle link buttons so that a particular word could have all that funcitonality. Or is there some other strategy for doing this. Again, the particular word/phrase would be embedded in a paragraph of text inside a TextArea. Also, I couldn't figure out how to make a more complex tooltip component (one that could incorporate images and text and be interacive). Rather than trying to extend tooltip functionality, should I be looking at using the PopupManager instead? If so, how do I get the PopupManager to make my turbotooltip appear at the correct offset from the word in the paragaph of text that should have this functionality? Finally, I also want to be able to control the layout of my help text page by page as well as intermingle animations. Would I be better off building all this in Flash instead of Flex? Any sample apps/sample code/books to read that people can point me to that would help me sort through all this would be GREATLY appreciated.
