You can do this. In a button script; on mouseenter
set the tooltip of me to random(999) end mouseenter Now every time you move the cursor into that button, you get a new integer when you hover. Craig > On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi David, > >> Am 11.01.2022 um 15:29 schrieb David Glasgow via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Hi folks >> >> I have an app in which tooltips are generally off. I also have a button >> menu which allows the selection of equality/inequelity. Users are non >> technical, and on selection (i.e. not the usual hover) I wanted to pop up a >> brief tooltip describing the selected item in ordinary language >> (irrespective of whether tooltips are globally on or off): >> >> on menuPick pChosenItem >> set the label of me to pChosenitem >> switch >> case pChosenItem = "=" >> set the tooltip of me to "Equals" >> break >> case pChosenItem = "≤" >> set the tooltip of me to “Is at least" >> break >> case pChosenItem = "≅" >> set the tooltip of me to “Is approximately" >> break >> end switch >> set the tooltipdelay to 500 >> show the tooltip of me >> set the tooltip delay to 0 >> end menuPick >> >> It seems show the tooltip of me isn’t a thing. I appreciate that I could >> show and hide an ordinary field, but I wondered if I have overlooked a >> suitable message and/or syntax that will enable what I want. >> >> >> Best Wishes, >> >> David Glasgow > > well, we cannot explicitely show a tooltip by script. > So "show the tooltup of me" will not work if it doesn't throw an error. > > Problem in your script: > ... > set the tooltipdelay to 500 > ## from this point the tooltip will appear in 500 millisecs > ## show the tooltip of me > > ## but this will disable the tooltip again much EARLIER than the 500 > millisecs! > ## LC is too fast for this :-) > set the tooltip delay to 0 > ... > > > Best > > Klaus > > > > -- > Klaus Major > https://www.major-k.de <https://www.major-k.de/> > https://www.major-k.de/bass <https://www.major-k.de/bass> > kl...@major-k.de <mailto:kl...@major-k.de> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto: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 > <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> _______________________________________________ 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
