SMOOTH TOOL TIP (AS3)

gopic – It is just 1 movie clip. For each item you want it to show up for you set the text you want on the tooltip. The tooltip will resize, fade in and fade out for each object. You just call functions to the single tooltip movie clip.

Florindustries – I already have an update in the queue with that fixed.

Thanks everyone for the compliments!

alwinch – In the smoothToolTip movie clip, just select the text fields located in the Text layer and change the text size (from the Properties tab) to whatever you want. The ActionScript will take care of lining everything up.

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.

gkot – Can you explain further by what you mean by linkable? If you want it open a webpage or go to a frame by Clicking, just add that functionality to the object you are rolling over. If you are talking about something else, please let me know.

Thanks for your purchase!

gkot – This issue is a general AS3 question, but here’s the basic setup for what you need to do. You need to set up an Event Listener for when you select a movieclip/object on the stage, like this:

btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,btnUp);

This tells flash to listen for when you release the mouse on a particular movie clip (in this case the movie clip with the instance name btn). So, when you release the mouse on btn, it calls the function btnUp, which will run particular set of code, like this:

function btnUp (e:MouseEvent):void{ // PUT WHATEVER YOU WANT TO HAPPEN HERE }

So, if you want to link to a different webpage you could put:

function btnUp (e:MouseEvent):void{ var webRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.flashden.net”;

navigateToURL(webRequest,window);

Or, if you want to go to a different frame, put:

function btnUp (e:MouseEvent):void{ gotoAndPlay(3); }

Anyways, I hope that helps. If you’re trying to learn ActionScript I would suggest getting a book. Most of my knowledge was gained through reading a book called’ Essential ActionScript 3.0’ by Colin Mook.

Good luck!

Joe

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gkot – I have pasted the code here , where it is formatted better.

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

Frost – Are you trying to have more than 1 tooltip display at a time? Or do you just want the tooltip to show with different text when you roll over each item?

If the latter is the case, you will only need 1 instance of the tooltip. Set the instance name to “toolTip”, and then copy and paste the code from here into your frame. (delete your old code).

There are other errors in your code not relating to this product to take note of… For the functions you were trying to call, like:”function btnOver(e:MouseEvent):void{ }”, everything that is withing the “{}” is what would be run when the function is called… which in your code all of that information is located after the curly brackets, so it would run that code as soon as the file starts, and nothing would happen when you call the function… I hope that makes sense.

Anyways, take a look at the code I modified for you and let me know how it works out. Thanks for your purchase! Please remember to rate the file when you get a chance.

Joe

ilario – Yes, you’ll get the .fla once you download, and you can change the colors.