Re: [Dynapi-Help] Tooltips (was: no subject)

[Richard B. <ma...@ri...>]

I'm sorry, it seems this example is flawed, I posted before testing it
properly.

Richard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bennett" <ma...@ri...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Tooltips (was: no subject)


> Hi,
> Normally I think it would look better if you make the tooltip yourself,
i.e.
> a layer which follows the mouse etc.
>
> But if you prefer tooltips that's ok.
> I'm not sure about using setBgImage AFAIK. (also check the faq on this)
> You CAN use setHTML, or DynImage.
> I put up an example of that here:
>
> Richard_Examples
>     Images_with_ALT.html
> http://www.richardinfo.com/?menu=examples&node=1
>
> Cheers,
> Richard Bennett
>
> ma...@ri...
> www.richardinfo.com
> (Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of DynAPI2)
> Find the DynAPI faq here:
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=656&group_id=5757
> Browse the mailinglist here:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Lemon" <Chr...@pl...>
> To: <dyn...@li...>;
<Dyn...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:17 PM
> Subject: [Dynapi-Help] (no subject)
>
>
> > Has any one got any good methods for displaying tooltips for layers
which
> > contain just a background image.
> >
> > At the moment the best way I can think of is on a mouseover event to
place
> a
> > transparent layer over the top of the image layer.  I then set the HTML
of
> > this new layer to an <IMG> tag with the src being a transparent gif.  I
> then
> > use the alt attribute of the img tag to get a tooltip to display.
> >
> > The problem I'm having is when I also try to pisk up on the click event
> for
> > the layer.  IE picks up this mouse click event with no problems but
> Netscape
> > seems to be slightly inconsistent.  Every now and then the click event
> does
> > not get called.  I am unable to see under what conditions the click
event
> is
> > ignored.
> >
> > I have tried invoking the event from the tooltip layer but this doesn't
> seem
> > to alter the behaviour in Netscape.
> >
> > Does anyone have any other ideas/methods for showing tooltips but
> retaining
> > the event listening for the mouseup event in Netscape
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris
> >
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