Simple Swish Tooltips

Fully scripted tooltips that can easily be applied to just about any object within your Swish movie.

The Script

function tooltip(str){
    showtt = (!_root.showtt);
    showtext=str;
    }
OnLoad(){

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("holder",0); 
    holder.createTextField("xxx",0, 0,0, 500, 18);
    ref=_root.holder.xxx;
    ref.Text = "tooltip";
    ref.border = false;

}
OnEnterFrame(){
        holder._visible = _root.showtt;
        holder.xxx.Text=_root.showtext;
        holder._X = _xmouse+15;
        holder._Y = _ymouse;        
    
    }

Usage

Plug the code above into the root of your movie, then lay down any objects.. buttons, sprites and add the following to the Rollover and Rollout events

onSelfEvent (rollOver) {
_root.tooltip("TOOLTIP TEXT HERE")
}
onSelfEvent (rollOut) {
_root.tooltip()
}

The Download

Download swish file

Comments

Kim McCormick
1/27/2005 2:45:50 AM huh?

tigaman
3/14/2005 6:10:35 AM good work, thnx

lou 4/5/2005 11:12:25 AM When you write: "Plug the code above into the root of your movie," Where in the Swish interface is the "root" of the movie? I am not sure where to place the script for the function

Joe Maddalone
4/5/2005 1:46:23 PM Click on your scene (usually, Scene 1) and then click on the tab to switch to "Script" view. Above any other code plug this in.

Raheel 5/19/2005 1:13:18 AM How can I change the color of the tooltip?

loop 12/18/2006 4:21:12 PM Not work at me :?

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