Haven't tried it, but try firing mouseenter instead of elementEnter.
On Oct 12, 7:37 pm, DustyReagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need help manually calling the elementEnter function on an
> element... I think.
>
> I'm using the Tool Tips plugin on my project. The problem I'm having
> is that all the demo code I've seen for the Tips plugin works by
> attaching a new Tip for every occurrence of your specified class as
> soon as the DOM finishes loading. Like this:
>
> var Tips1 = new Tips($$('.Tips1'));
>
> My problem is I sometimes have many thousands of objects, and that
> JavaScript is killing my browser.
>
> I'd like to attach the element to the Tips object as soon as someone
> mouses over an object, instead of trying to load every instance all at
> once. I've nearly got this figured out below, but the problem is after
> I do the attach, the mouse is already moused over the element (an
> image in my case), so the Tip doesn't show until you move your mouse
> off the element, then move it back over.
>
> I think I can fix this by somehow manually calling elementEnter on my
> image so that it causes the Tips to fire right after I've attached it.
> I'm not sure how to call elementEnter manually.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> My code thus far:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> window.addEvent('domready', function(){
> tipz = new Tips();
>
> });
>
> function tipit(image)
> {
> element = $(image);
> if(element.get("title") != null)
> {
> var content = element.get("title").split('::');
> element.store('tip:title', content[0]);
> var tipString = '';
>
> if(content[0] != content[1])
> tipString += '<strong>Name: </strong>' + content[1] +
> '<br />';
> if(content[2] != '')
> tipString += '<strong>Location: </strong>' +
> content[2] + '<br />';
> tipString += '<strong>Followers: </strong>' + content[3];
>
> element.store('tip:text', tipString);
>
> tipz.attach(element);
>
> element.fireEvent('elementEnter', element); // This doesn't
> work. :(
> }}
>
> </script>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dusty
