RE: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread John Dixon
err... tooltip ... :-) I'm not remembering the name of the property for the text that comes up when you hold the mouse pointer over an object. I browsed through the dictionary and nothing rings a bell. Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Pete
That's the tooltip. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: I'm not remembering the name of the property for the text that comes up when you hold the mouse pointer over an object. I browsed through the dictionary and nothing rings a bell. Dar

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dar, Do you mean the tooltip? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Get the extIco2Png external for LiveCode here http://qery.us/1w6 On 12 apr 2012, at

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread dunbarx
All. I am sure he means the mouseText Bets? Craig -Original Message- From: Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 4:05 pm Subject: Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Dar Scott
Actually, it was tooltip that I could not remember. However, I am inspired to think up a good reason to use the mouseText in something! Thanks, everybody! -- Dar On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:46 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: All. I am sure he means the mouseText Bets? Craig

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/12 5:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Actually, it was tooltip that I could not remember. However, I am inspired to think up a good reason to use the mouseText in something! Point and shoot: set the tooltip of btn 1 to the mousetext -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread dunbarx
Jacque, That sort of elegance brings tears of joy. It should be in either a tutorial, or a press release to C++ programmers on what they are missing. Craig -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent:

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Dar Scott
Thank you for cheering me up, you two! I use the object inspector as an aid in remembering property names. I thought I would just click on an object and look at the property inspector and immediately see what I was trying to remember. Unfortunately, that doesn't work if I click on a group