Great tip! (pun intended) So here is what I came up with. Keep in mind that tKeyList is a list of columns I want in the tooltip. The idea is to present the user with a tooltip containing summary information on the datagrid data record. I had to prepend a counter to each key so that it would sort based on the order of the items in tKeyList. Arrays. SHEESH! Sure would be nice if the keys were in the order they were added!
I will probably move the relevant code into another handler in my Utilities backscript, then pass the long id of the target, and the key list to that handler. I will also probably update this handler so that in the event no keylist is passed, I will get the datagrid column labels, and use those for a key list. on mouseEnter local tKeyList wait 1 second with messages put the target into tTargetName put tTargetName into tTarget -- we need to preserver the original name if the first word of tTarget is not "field" then pass mouseEnter end if put "sitename,addr1,city,state,zip,contactname,contactphone,contactemail," into tKeyList put "itname,itphone,itemail" after keyList replace quote with empty in tTargetName put the last word of tTargetName into tLine put the dgDataOfLine [tLine] of me into aLineData repeat for each item tKey in tKeyList add 1 to tCounter put aLineData [tKey] into aRecordData [tCounter & ". " & tKey] end repeat put arrayToText(aRecordData, "record") into tText sort lines of tText set the tooltip of tTarget to tText show the tooltip of tTarget breakpoint pass mouseEnter end mouseEnter function arrayToText aArrayData, pFormat, pStripRecordKeys if aArrayData is not an array then put "ERROR: Data passed is not an array!" into theValue return theValue end if if pStripRecordKeys is not in "true|false" then put false into pStripRecordKeys -- sort tArrayKeys ascending -- may be an array of values put the keys of aArrayData into tArrayKeys sort lines of tArrayKeys numeric ascending put line 1 of tArrayKeys is 0 into tHasHeader -- convert single array to numeric array of arrays if line 1 of tArrayKeys is not a number then put aArrayData into aTempArray [1] put aTempArray into aArrayData put the keys of aArrayData into tArrayKeys end if switch pFormat case "record" repeat for each line tArrayKey in tArrayKeys put aArrayData [tArrayKey] into aArrayRecord put the keys of aArrayRecord into tColumnKeys repeat for each line tColumnKey in tColumnKeys put tColumnKey & ": " & aArrayRecord [tColumnKey] & cr after tValue end repeat end repeat break case "table" -- table header if not tHasHeader then put cr into tValue repeat for each line tArrayKey in tArrayKeys add 1 to tCount put aArrayData [tArrayKey] into aArrayRecord put the keys of aArrayRecord into tColumnKeys sort lines of tColumnKeys numeric ascending repeat for each line tColumnKey in tColumnKeys if pStripRecordKeys and (char 1 of tColumnKey is "@") then next repeat if tCount = 1 and not tHasHeader then put tColumnKey & tab after line 1 of tValue put aArrayRecord [tColumnKey] & tab after tValue end repeat put cr into last char of tValue end repeat break end switch return tValue end arrayToText Bob S > On Jul 11, 2017, at 19:09 , Mike Bonner via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > There should be a couple ways.. Assuming the tooltip data and the displayed > data are already associated, you can do as suggested and pass in the popop > information as part of the dgdata.. Then in the fillindata you 'set the > tooltip of field 1 of me to ... the data that was passed in with the array. > To do this though i _Think_ you'd need a custom behavior for every > column. > > To get around this, you could use a mouseenter in the script of the > datagrid itself that does something like.. > > on mouseenter > get the text of the target > -- then use the text of the target to look up your tooltip data and.. > set the tooltip of the target to "whateveryouwant" > > end mouseenter > > i tested by setting the tooltip to a random number and it seems to work > fine. > > If you're using a form rather than a grid, its much easier, just use the > first method in the behavior script to set whatever tooltips you like as > part of the fillindata. A single script edit to handle all tooltips. _______________________________________________ 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