What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTML a links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the link a/ tag itself and 'set the linktext to uri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the HTML link title parameter at the field/text level?

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTML a links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the link a/ tag itself and 'set the linktext to uri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks for the steer Jim. Just to be clear, I'm not looking for HTML compatibility - I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that this is not a standard

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 6:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTMLa links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the linka/ tag itself and 'set the linktext touri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the HTML link title

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Keith Clarke wrote: I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that this is not a standard thing that I have simply overlooked). I've tried the message

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/5/11 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Keith Clarke wrote: I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Nonsanity
Or to embed the tooltip with the link: a href=tooltip:Some text to displaySome text/a on mousemove x,y set itemdel to : get the linktext of the mousechunk if item 1 of it = tooltip then set the tooltip of me to item 2 to -1 of it else set the tooltip of me to

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Jaque, Jim and Richard for the insights - you've given me the necessary ingredients for a workaround. I'm surprised that such measures are necessary for a net-aware development environment - and I can't find any requests on the QA forum to address this issue. So, I've added this