You're my hero Chris. That did it!
However, it's causing 'event.page' to be undefined, and an error is
thrown in the position: function(event) method of Tips. I'm working on
debugging that now, but if you have any ideas on how to get rid of
that error, I'm all ears! :)
Dusty
On Oct 13, 8:46 am, Chris J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
