I have a unique suggestion... use the label property of the group to say what the group contains, and then set the showname to true.
Voila, no tooltip needed! ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > J. Landman Gay > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:17 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Tooltip for groups > > > On 11/15/03 10:37 AM, jbv wrote: > > >> > >>For me this is pretty much a non-issue. I routinely solve > this problem > >>by placing a transparent button or empty image object behind > >>everything else. Make it layer 1 in the group. That way, objects on > >>top of it which have tooltips will respond with their own > tip. Spaces > >>between objects respond with the layer-1 object tooltip. > It's a very > >>easy fix and doesn't require any engine changes or even any > scripting. > >> > > > > > > Yep, except that it doesn't solve the problem : with your solution, > > you'll never display a unique tooltip when user points at the group > > (except if you set all tooltips of all the objects of that group to > > the same content - and if that content needs to be changed > on-the-fly, > > then some scripting is required). Besides, placing a transparent > > object behind everything will show a tooltip when pointing at empty > > spaces between objects, which is not really usefull... > > I guess I misunderstood what you were after. I thought the above was > what you wanted. After reading your reply to Scott Rossi, I > see now what > you are trying to do; you want a tooltip that acts as though > a grouped > set of controls were a single control. > > I can see some potential interface problems with this though. If your > group has only a single functionality -- for example, clicking on the > group as a whole produces a single action -- then a > transparent button > over the top would give you what you want. You could script > the button > to trigger the necessary action. > > If the group instead has several buttons or controls, each of which > respond independently to user actions, then I'm not sure a single > tooltip is the best choice. Each control should probably have its own > tool tip. But I'm still not clear on what you need, so maybe > I'm off base. > > Can you explain more what the group does and how it reacts? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-> revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
