Tooltip issues

Poster: dbaron
Dated: Friday April 16 2004 - 22:11:30 BST

Hi There - I have a couple of issues with tooltips that I'm hoping you all can help with. First off, what do I do when I need apostrophes in the tip, for instance, showtip('This is Andy's menu') I have tried the basic \' , but that still gets caught in the BuildTips() function inside the tooltip file.

Assuming that can be fixed, there is another issue of 'placement' on the screen. If the link or menu item is too low, or too far to the right, then the tooltip window (region) displays 'below' or 'offscreen to the right' of the main window. Does anyone know if this can be dealt with.

Prior to using Milonic, we used the OverLib tooltip object. It was great. As others on this board have brough up, there seems to be some kind of conflict between their object and Milonic. It seems that Milonic loses the MouseY and MouseX values (those objects become 'undefined' when the OverLib library is loaded). Others have suggested renaming certain functions and/or variables, but either they were not specific, or it did not work. We would prefer to use the Overlib library, as it is very full featured. Does anyone currently have both objects working well together?

Thanks,

-David Baron

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 16 2004 - 22:36:51 BST

I used the code for the apostrophe and that worked for me. ´ = '

Ruth

Tooltip issues

Poster: dbaron
Dated: Monday April 19 2004 - 20:38:18 BST

Thanks Ruth. That somewhat solved one issue, although the acute symbol is not really a single quote mark. I guess the real issue is the inclusion of real quote marks, legally escaped that is.

Then there is still the issue of 'screen placement', and overall compatibility with OverLib.

Thanks again.