Hi, Karl.
The plug-in is working much better now that you implemented the various positioning features. I went back to auto to check out the cluetip image behavior and, you're right, 'auto' works better for me than 'mouse'. The problem I was having with a setting of "positionBy: 'mouse'" is that the pop-up image in the ClueTip would overlap the photo in the page that is being moused over to trigger the ClueTip. If I moved my mouse fairly quickly over the trigger image too far from the right or left, the ClueTip image wouldn't show. Using 'auto' places the ClueTip off the trigger image and eliminates that problem. The only issue I have with the 'auto' setting is when only the very bottom of the trigger image is showing at the top of the browser window, then the ClueTip image doesn't move down far enough into the window. It remains partly cut off at the top because it will only re-position itself downwards only so far, and then no more. This is not a big problem, since all I have to do is scroll the trigger image down into the page, and then I can see the full ClueTip image. The re-positioning behavior works well on the bottom of the browser window. Sorry I don't have a site for you to view this behavior on. The site is still on my local workstation. I'll be putting it onto the server for the site owner in the next couple of days and I'll let you know where to view the plug-in at work. It's a great plug-in and I use it on almost every site I've developed. Oh, and one more thing. the quote issue wasn't a matter of double vs single quotes, it was a matter of "no quote" vs single quotes. At first I didn't have any quotes around auto, which wasn't working. I noticed that some of the attribute values had quotes, so I decided to put the quotes on and make it 'auto' and it worked. Rick From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [jQuery] Re: ClueTip Question... Hey Rick, Glad you got something worked out. Actually, I'm surprised that the single vs. double quote thing made a difference. It's a little disconcerting. I'll have to look into that. Also, you should have to do positionBy: 'auto' since that is the default. I did manage to get clueTip to move to whichever side it fits best _____ . With positionBy: 'auto' it should attempt to display it to the right of the invoking element first; then, if there isn't enough room, to the left; then below; and, finally, above. So if it wasn't working for you, I can only guess that there is a bug somewhere (much to my chagrin). If you run into another problem with it, a test page demonstrating the problem would be helpful. Last time when you provided a link to a page you were working on, it might troubleshooting much easier. As always, I really appreciate your feedback. --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Well... I guess asking a question spawns an answer. I realized that some of the ClueTip options were surrounded by single quotes. When I added those around the option, positionBy: 'auto', it worked fine. Actually, positionBy: 'mouse' seems to work best. Thanks for the good work, Karl! Rick PS - It's sorta strange for this entire thread to be a conversation with myself... well, it is 12:02 am... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Faircloth Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [jQuery] Re: ClueTip Question... I should have looked a little harder. there it was in "black & white". So, I did find the info about positioning the ClueTip and decided that "auto" would probably be what I'm looking for, but when I put "positionBy: auto" in the ClueTip options, it disabled the ClueTip. The "hidden div" part of the ClueTip just sits on the page. When I remove the positionBy option, all works normally. I changed that option in the "custom-cluetip.js" file, which has this in it: $(document).ready(function() { $('a.load-local').cluetip({ local: true, cluetipClass: 'jtip', cursor: 'pointer', arrows:true, dropShadow: true, width: 410 }); }); Suggestions? Rick From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Faircloth Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [jQuery] ClueTip Question... Hey, Karl. (or anyone else who might know) Did you ever get ClueTip coded so that it will show top, bottom, left, and right, depending on what direction a ClueTip will best fit the screen? I just put the latest version on the plug-in page on a site, and if I scroll the page so that the ClueTip link is at the top of the page, it still puts the ClueTip out to the left where part of it is cut off at the top, instead of at the bottom where there's plenty of room for it to show. Rick
