Smooth Tool Tip (AS2)

JoeMC

Smooth Tool Tip

FILE UPDATE [11/02/08] – Fixed another minor glitch in the code.

FILE UPDATE [10/31/08] – I have revised a little bit of the code. I realized there where a couple minor errors in the ActionScript and have fixed them so the ToolTip works as it was meant to.

The Coolest tool tip you will ever find!

About Smooth Tool Tip

Quickly drag & drop the tool tip into your Flash project
Easily change the text the tooltip
The tooltip will auto-resize depending on the text
You can set the target object to Automatically blur out with the tool tip
The tool tip will never appear off of the stage
Smooth mouse following using tweening

View the help file

Smooth Tool Tip Help File

ActionScript 2 Projects

ActionScript 3 Projects

Posted about 1 month ago

dxc381

Very nice. My only concern is that the triangle overlaps the square part a little so it fades out a little funny. Other than that, cool file.

Posted about 1 month ago

modular

smooth!

Posted about 1 month ago

HagiosDesign
Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars

Very nice

Posted about 1 month ago

rcuela

very useful

Posted about 1 month ago

vizix

Great file! Very useful…

Please add the releaseOutside handler.

I changed line 31 to:

this.onRollOut = this.onReleaseOutside = Delegate.create(this, btnOut);

Also when I changed the font, it chopped off the bottom, so I made the dynamic text area much “taller” in the y direction.

Thanks!

Posted about 1 month ago

JoeMC

Thanks vizix – I’ll make that change and re-upload. I’m much more of an AS3 guy, so I forget about the onReleaseOutside listener in AS2 .

Posted about 1 month ago

beer

Joe: At first glance this work appears somewhat similar to another tooltip here with the same name. But the difference is that this tooltip is in fact the coolest tooltip I have found anywhere. GREAT WORK —and Thanks!

Posted about 1 month ago

JoeMC

Thanks beer. I appreciate the comment!

Posted about 1 month ago

vizix

What is the best way to add multiple rollover targets with different rollover “HEADER TEXT ”,”Copy Text” attributes? I’m not familiar with the use of the Delegate class.

Again great work – Thanks!

Posted about 1 month ago

JoeMC

vizix – There’s not much you need to know about the delegate besides setting up you mouseEvents a certain way. In the example below, you set up the .onRollOver the same way as you normally would, but instead of just using:

myObject.onRollOver = btnOver;

You use:

myObject.onRollOver = Delegate.create(myObject, btnOver);

function btnOver():Void{ smoothToolTip.startMouseFollow(this); smoothToolTip.setText(“Your Header Text”,”Your Copy Text”; }

You just need to add = Delegate.create(The same object you just called the onRollOver function with, The actualy functionname);

You can add different Header Text and Copy Text for object.

Hope that helps!

Posted about 1 month ago

JoeMC

FILE UPDATE 10 /31/08 – I have revised a little bit of the code. I realized there where a couple minor errors in the ActionScript and have fixed them so the ToolTip works as it was meant to.

Posted 22 days ago

shoutmatt

Hi. I would like to know how to call the tooltip which is on the primary timeline when the button is inside an MC.

MC Instance: section1 Button Instance: one

I’ve tried:

section1.one.onRollOver = Delegate.create(section1.one, InnerBtn); function InnerBtn():Void { smoothToolTip.setText(“Section One”,”This is all about section one.”; smoothToolTip.startMouseFollow(); this.onRollOut = this.onReleaseOutside=Delegate.create(section1.one, btnOut); }

Posted 22 days ago

JoeMC

shoutmatt – Try this and let me know if it works.

Thanks for your purchase! Don’t forget to rate the file if you haven’t already.

Joe

Posted 22 days ago

JoeMC

FILE UPDATE [11/02/08] – Fixed another minor glitch in the code.

Posted 19 days ago

shoutmatt

Thanks Joe for all your help with the code! This Tooltip is wonderful!

Small Detail: Is it possible to change the type color, stroke, and background gradient within the tooltip? I’ve been looking within the .as files, but I couldn’t locate the exact locations for these changes.

Thanks again for all your help!

Posted 17 days ago

shoutmatt

Nevermind. Found your well documented comments in the .fla file.