Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

2022-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Tooltips can be a solution, but the mechanism has some limitations in this context. First, tooltips are a sort of hidden feature, where the user discovers them only after moving the mouse over the object. Prior to that moment they're invisible, offering no guidance at all. And in this

Re: Thinking out loud

2022-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Android apps run on Chromebooks and I have several installed, including 3 of my own. There are a few glitches when rotating to tablet mode on Chromebooks that support that feature but in general they work pretty well. For you, that would be the easiest way forward. The main problem is that

Thinking out loud

2022-01-14 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Folks: Just thinking out loud. My hobby and gift to pay back all of the money I got from the National Science Foundation over my career, is to program and make educational applications about Earth Science. I’m finding, tho, that for younger kids, Chromebooks are mostly used. So, tapping into

Re: regex backreferences

2022-01-14 Thread Kaveh via use-livecode
Hi all I emailed Thierry on 23 Dec and I have had no response. It looks like his last post on the Forum was in July 2021. His software for backreferences works beautifully. It is closed

Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

2022-01-14 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=36647=211966#p211966 On 14.01.22 13:10, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: Thanks all. I scripted as if the delay was the duration the tooltip is displayed. Duh! Of course the delay is hover delay before the tooltip shows! I knew that, and

Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

2022-01-14 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
Thanks all. I scripted as if the delay was the duration the tooltip is displayed. Duh! Of course the delay is hover delay before the tooltip shows! I knew that, and yet somehow didn’t know it at the same time. Cheers David G > On 11 Jan 2022, at 2:48 pm, Craig Newman via use-livecode >