Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Hi again. Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right? on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Craig, Thanks for that! No, I didn't know I could use the tooltip for that. So I could do something like: Set the text of the tooltip of me to mytext as the mouse is moved? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:34 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hi again. Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right? on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Craig wrote: on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Really clever! :-) In Linux, the tooltip get stuck in one place and does not follow the pointer within the graphic rect. Al ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Edit the tooltip On Nov 18, 2014, at 15:00 , William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Well, not quite. The toolTip is a property, and must be set directly. You might say it has no text property, being a property already. You might also say that the toolTip property is, already, its text. In other words, keep it simple. Just set it and go... Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 10:44 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Craig, Thanks for that! No, I didn't know I could use the tooltip for that. So I could do something like: Set the text of the tooltip of me to mytext as the mouse is moved? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:34 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hi again. Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right? on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Craig: Ok, let me see if I’ve got it. on mouseMove put myText into toolTip —?? i.e. how do I get text that depends on the mouseLoc, into the tooltip contents? set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Tnx, Bill On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:32 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Well, not quite. The toolTip is a property, and must be set directly. You might say it has no text property, being a property already. You might also say that the toolTip property is, already, its text. In other words, keep it simple. Just set it and go... Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 10:44 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Craig, Thanks for that! No, I didn't know I could use the tooltip for that. So I could do something like: Set the text of the tooltip of me to mytext as the mouse is moved? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:34 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hi again. Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right? on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
On 11/19/2014, 1:18 PM, William Prothero wrote: Ok, let me see if I’ve got it. on mouseMove put myText into toolTip —?? i.e. how do I get text that depends on the mouseLoc, into the tooltip contents? set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove The mousemove message includes the mouse coordinates in its parameters, like this: on mouseMove x,y set the tooltip of me to x,y end mouseMove This sets the text of the tooltip. You can't set its location by script, that is automatic. But there are some problems using tooltips this way: 1. There is a delay before the tooltip appears. By default it is a half second. You can adjust that though by setting the tooltipDelay when the stack opens. 2. The tooltip appears under the mouse the first time it is displayed, but if the mouse moves inside the same object while the tooltip is already showing, it will not follow the mouse. That may or may not be a problem, depending on what you're doing. 3. If the mouse moves out of the object and then back into it too quickly, sometimes the tooltip doesn't get the message and is ignored. I've found that using a field that follows the mouse is more reliable and allows more control, although I do have one project that uses tooltips this way. LiveCode's app browser uses them too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Two things. First, jacque makes a point, in that even with a toolTipDelay of 1 the toolTip itself is jittery. I guess it is really a note gizmo that in intended to tell you something while the mouse hovers over an object, and does not move overmuch. A field that tracks the mouseLoc is really much nicer, since many mouseMove messages are sent in a short time while the cursor is on the march. Can you do that? make it appear and disappear, and track? The toolTip handles that automatically, but is not as smooth at all. Second, read up on the mouseText. This can be used (unless there is some other relationship between the mouseLoc and your desired text) to great advantage. Do you see how to do this? Craig -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 2:19 pm Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Craig: Ok, let me see if I’ve got it. on mouseMove put myText into toolTip —?? i.e. how do I get text that depends on the mouseLoc, into the tooltip contents? set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Tnx, Bill On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:32 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Well, not quite. The toolTip is a property, and must be set directly. You might say it has no text property, being a property already. You might also say that the toolTip property is, already, its text. In other words, keep it simple. Just set it and go... Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 10:44 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Craig, Thanks for that! No, I didn't know I could use the tooltip for that. So I could do something like: Set the text of the tooltip of me to mytext as the mouse is moved? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:34 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hi again. Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right? on mouseMove set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc end mouseMove Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay. Craig -Original Message- From: Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
dunbarx wrote [snip] A field that tracks the mouseLoc is really much nicer, since many mouseMove messages are sent in a short time while the cursor is on the march. Can you do that? make it appear and disappear, and track? The toolTip handles that automatically, but is not as smooth at all. Could this work? Here is a very simple method: 1- Create a small field named cursorpos 2- Create an opaque rectangle graphic and put this script in the graphic: on mousemove x,y set the layer of fld cursorpos to the layer of me + 1 put x,y into fld cursorpos set the topleft of fld cursorpos to x+20,y end mousemove on mouseleave hide fld cursorpos end mouseleave on mouseenter show fld cursorpos end mouseenter Use contrasting colors for the background of the graphic and the small field. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-Server-on-DreamHost-tp4685924p4686058.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Thanks for the info, folks. Frankly, the field method seems better to me. I’ll use the “on mouse move x,y” method. I’ve already got it implemented, except that I was putting all of the action inside a repeat while loop, which was causing recursion limit problems occasionally. But, since the mouseMove message is initiated when the mouse moves, I won’t need to enclose the whole thing in a repeat while loop. Thanks for the discussion. Best, Bill On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: dunbarx wrote [snip] A field that tracks the mouseLoc is really much nicer, since many mouseMove messages are sent in a short time while the cursor is on the march. Can you do that? make it appear and disappear, and track? The toolTip handles that automatically, but is not as smooth at all. Could this work? Here is a very simple method: 1- Create a small field named cursorpos 2- Create an opaque rectangle graphic and put this script in the graphic: on mousemove x,y set the layer of fld cursorpos to the layer of me + 1 put x,y into fld cursorpos set the topleft of fld cursorpos to x+20,y end mousemove on mouseleave hide fld cursorpos end mouseleave on mouseenter show fld cursorpos end mouseenter Use contrasting colors for the background of the graphic and the small field. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-Server-on-DreamHost-tp4685924p4686058.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Hi William, Still not well from Cold, but here is a very simple method: Create a small field named cursorpos Create an opaque rectangle graphic and put this script in the graphic: on mousemove x,y set the layer of fld cursorpos to the layer of me + 1 put x,y into fld cursorpos set the topleft of fld cursorpos to x+20,y end mousemove on mouseleave hide fld cursorpos end mouseleave on mouseenter show fld cursorpos end mouseenter Please, use contrasting colors for the background of the graphic and the small field. Al ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Al, Ahah! Didn't know there was a mouse move message. Thanks! Bill On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi William, Still not well from Cold, but here is a very simple method: Create a small field named cursorpos Create an opaque rectangle graphic and put this script in the graphic: on mousemove x,y set the layer of fld cursorpos to the layer of me + 1 put x,y into fld cursorpos set the topleft of fld cursorpos to x+20,y end mousemove on mouseleave hide fld cursorpos end mouseleave on mouseenter show fld cursorpos end mouseenter Please, use contrasting colors for the background of the graphic and the small field. Al ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?
Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org To: Use-livecode Use-livecode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field? Folks: I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. So, I do something like: on mouseEnter doTheDisplay end mouseEnter on doTheDisplay repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect doStuff that shows the field and its contents end repeat end doTheDisplay The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
