tool-tips

[GIGN]

I want to delay the deployment of tooltips by some arbitrary number of seconds.

When I put a clip to sleep though - it pauses the entire Movie, is there any way to get around this?

Evidently Flash is single threaded.

[bb]

 

[coldfused]

don't know what your talking about, but it sounds interesting..care to explain?

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[BigBadDave]

Make sure the tooltip is in a seperate movie_clip then you can just stop it for how ever many seconds you like :

pause_time = 20;
time_start = getTimer();
time_end = Number(time_start)+Number(1000*pause_time);
pause_time = int(Number(((time_end-time_now)/1000))+0.9);

time_now = getTimer();
trace (time_now-time_end);
if (Number(time_now)>=Number(time_end)) {
tellTarget ("/&quot {
gotoAndStop ("finish"
}
gotoAndStop ("end_timer"
}

call ("start_timer"
gotoAndPlay ("start_timer" Regards

Big Dave


** If I am wrong I am sorry, but i'm only trying to help!! **

 

[GIGN]

Well, I don't want the tooltips just to pop-up on mouseover, they need to be delayed for a second or two, much like any you see in windows, or from a link etc...

I have briefly tried to emulate this behaviour, by using a sleep function inside the tooltip clip to pause it, but it locks the entire Movie.

This maybe in my implementation, I'll try again.
;-)

 

[GIGN]

Must've posted exactly same time - please disregard.

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[wangbar]

Rather than going with mouseOver to trigger the tool tip could you use a combination of hitTest and getTimer?

This is a similar approach to Dave's suggestion in some ways
and I don't know the layout of your code but roughly it would read...

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(this.hitTest(cliponstage)){
showTime=getTimer();
showTime+=2000;
}
if(showTime<getTimer()){
//show tooltip
}
}