I recieved two responses within minutes of sending this question out.
Thanks to Dara Thompson and Lindsay Giles for their help.

Here are the responses:

1. Change the label settings under layer control to the airport name field, 
just don't turn on the autolabel toggle. This works for any label setting, 
including expressions. The infotip uses the first selectable layer that has 
an object under the cursor. If othe rlayers come up, either move them down 
or turn their selectability off.

2. The label that is displayed when you mouse-over something in the mapper
is
dependant on the label you choose within the label function in layer
control.

So within layer control, highlight the airport layer, and then click on the
label button on the right hand side.  The top of the new dialog box should
say "label with: " and you should be able to select which field you want
shown.

Original question:
Has anyone been able to succesfully write a mousover function to be able to
see, say the name of the airport instead of the ICAO code?  The user can
torn on/off the default infotips setting, but it is linked to whatever label
is turned on at the time of use.  

There are a few ways to tackle this.  What I did was to add the same data
layer and place it at the top of all the layers.  I made that layer
invisible and set the autolabel feature to show the airport name, not the
ICAO code.  However, i did not turn the autolabel feature on.  The airport
name correctly show when mousing over.  Some cool stuff that makes for a
nice feature in MapInfo.


Todd McNeil
GIS Specialist
Aeronautical Radio, Inc.
Annapolis, MD
P: 410.266.2302
E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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