Dave You could have the layer added twice in the layer control with the two label outputs. Top layer displays the label (as in ticked in the layer control) the bottom layer displays the mouse over label as in the full label you want
Regards Andrew Hare GIS Administrator Waimate District Council P.O Box 122 Waimate New Zealand Ph: +64 3 689 8079 Fax: +64 3 689 8075 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Baker Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:14 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [MI-L] Mouseover text different to label? An interesting problem, to which I think the answer will be that it isn't possible. One of my projects shows ships on a map in real-time, each with a label showing ID, Name, Speed, Heading, Distance Bearing & Time To Go to a target, and Update date & time. As you can tell, a fairly big label. The users are saying that the screen is too crowded with labels, but they still need the information the labels convey. Their suggestion is that the standard label only shows Name and Update date & time to make it less crowded. However, when they put their mouse over the top of the ship, it should show the full label in the "hover-text" (writing in yellow box triggered by mouse hovering). Is this possible? As far as I can see, the hover text will always be the same as the label text? I was thinking that I could create 2 layers of labels, 1 full, and 1 abbreviated, and have 1 displayed & the other shown as hover-text, but I can't see that it can be actually done (in MapInfo 8.0 or lower) If it isn't possible then my work-around is to have a toggle button that will toggle between the 2 layers of abbreviated & full labels. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
