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MYADVTOOLTIP

An easy to use dynamic tool tip.

Features:

  • Expands vertically according to the contents dynamically
  • flips according to button/movieClip position
  • If your mouse has reached the far corner,
    you still get to see the tooltip info
  • Tip contents are stored in an array for easy modifications
  • All tool tip shares the same movieClip, meaning you just need to edit one
  • easily set fade/movement speed/uppercase through the variables
  • Only one tooltip movieclip is generated at a time, save performance
  • HTML enabled

AATW - added along the way

  • onRelease tip – 22 Nov 07
    if you would like to use the existing button and just dynamically link them to a site, you can do so by the following steps:
    1. Create an array containing the links and remember to arrange according to the button numbers. After the tipInfo array, add another array like:
      var linkstosomewhere:Array = ["http://www.google.com", "http://www.yahoo.com", "http://www.msn.com", "http://www.youtube.com", "http://www.flickr.com", "http://www.flashden.net"];
      
    2. Next in the for loop below it, add
      b.link = root.linkstosomewhere[i];
      b.onRelease = gotoSite;
      
      right after b.toolTipInfo = root.tipInfo[i];
    3. lastly, open up toolTipFunctions.as and create a function at the end of the file which will launch the link:
      gotoSite = function () {
          getURL(this.link, "_blank");
      }
      
  • Bug fix. Tool tip appears off the pointer – 04 Jan 08
    open up toolTipFunctions.as and replace all “_root” with “root” ( press ctrl+f, find ‘_root.’ and replace with ‘root.’ ) so this will refer the path from where it was called..
Posted about 1 year ago

@othello
its probably due to height of the bottom movieclip called ‘tt_bottom’. open it up, change the height from 12.3 to 12. That should solve the issue. You could do the same for ‘tt_header’ if necessary.

Posted 9 months ago

That did not fix it. However if I moved the tt_bottom up .03 px it helped. Do you have a suggestion for flash rendering the special character em-dash without using html?

Thanks

Posted 9 months ago

Does anyone know how to get the special charactor em-dash to appear without rendering html?

Thanks

Posted 9 months ago

some googling would have helped you earlier.. http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-25341.html

Posted 9 months ago

this is the must complicated tooltip ever but also the best I have seen I want to use this tooltip in my flash site what do I have to import in my site and how do I set up the tool tip to my buttons and how do I add text if I have more then six buttons thanks for your help

Posted 9 months ago

@Pedro_Gomes
replied your email.

Posted 9 months ago

How can I chose the positioning of the tooltip I mean i always want the tooltip to be over the button how do I do that? thanks

Posted 9 months ago

@Pedro_Gomes replied your email.

Posted 9 months ago

Encryptme… Thanks. Great file… very easy to customize and you give a very usefull assistance. Thanks again.

Posted 8 months ago

Hi encryptme.

sent you an email yesterday! Did you get it?

Posted 6 months ago

apsara
replied your email.

Posted 6 months ago

what version of actionscript is this?

Posted 4 months ago

Hello, a colleague of mine (name: acasas) has bought this component for me and I had a question about where the tool tips can be written in the hierarchy of a Flash file and nested swfs.

I’m using a zoom component, also from this web site, and am trying to write the tool tips on the outermost swf (to avoid zooming). Currently I have them being activated from various scenes within the embedded/loaded swf. Is there any way to keep the structure of my file as is and target the tool tips to be written on the outermost swf?

My first try was to change this line:

var t:MovieClip = root.attachMovie(“mytooltip”, “mytooltip”root.no+, root.getNextHighestDepth());

to something like this:

var t:MovieClip = root.attachMovie(“mytooltip”, “mytooltip”root.no+, _parent._parent._parent._parent.getNextHighestDepth());

but it didn’t work. :-( Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted 4 months ago

It’s in AS2 .

-Encryptme, and plans to do an AS3 version? I’m trying to muddle through a conversion on my own, but it’s not going so well…

Posted 4 months ago

Hi Encryptme I recently bought your tooltip and love the way it works. There is one quick functionality issue I’d like to add to it but haven’t figured out yet: is there a way to add a delay so the tooltip doesn’t show up immediately after you rollover the buttons? Thanks a bunch.

Posted about 1 month ago

@coche09
you can use setInterval to delay the intToolTip function. So when you rollover it runs a countdown function instead of intToolTip function, when its up it shoots the intToolTip else it just reset/stops the countdown.

Posted about 1 month ago

Hi. How can I change the font (and size)? The font supplied doesn’t work well for my purposes.

Sorry if I’m being thick, but I’m really new to all this.

Posted about 1 month ago

@chinasoul
open up ‘tt_holder’ found in the library, select the text box, see properties panel, and select another font, make sure its embedded.

Posted about 1 month ago

I really like this tooltip but I do agree with Pedro_gomes, it’s pretty complicated! Can you give a simple example of how you would use this tooltip with just 3 individual buttons on a page, without having to play around with a loop and arrays?? My buttons are already sitting there, ready and waiting for their own tooltips…

Posted about 1 month ago
merkin51
set your total buttons
var totalBtns:Number = 3;

next name your buttons btn0, btn1 & btn2.. then define the tool tip info in the array accordingly.

Posted about 1 month ago