Or to embed the tooltip with the link:
<a href="tooltip:Some text to display">Some text</a>
on mousemove x,y
set itemdel to ":"
get the linktext of the mousechunk
if item 1 of it = "tooltip" then
set the tooltip of me to item 2 to -1 of it
else
set the tooltip of me to empty
end if
end mousemove
~ Chris Innanen
~ Nonsanity
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:35 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> On 7/5/11 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 7/5/11 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>> Keith Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>> > I was using the <a> link description as an analogy to describe
>>> > the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text
>>> > within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know
>>> > that this is not a standard thing that I have simply overlooked).
>>> >
>>> > I've tried the message watcher but there don't seem to be any
>>> > messages generated when the mouse traverses a change in textStyle
>>> > - i.e. the cursor doesn't change to a finger when over a link.
>>> > I hadn't really noticed this before but it seems strange as the
>>> > default behaviour. Is there maybe a property switch to enable
>>> > more orthodox cursor behaviour when over links in text?
>>>
>>> LC's htmlText supports the name attribute, so you can use something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> <a name="Some text you want to display">Link Label</a>
>>>
>>
>> I take back what I just said about inventing tag names, it doesn't seem
>> to work now. I could have sworn it used to. So your method is better.
>>
>>
> I remember what I was thinking of now. It isn't the tag you can customize,
> it's the URI. So you can do something like this:
>
> <a href="tooltip">Some text</a>
>
> Then use what Richard posted to grab the linktext of the mousechunk to see
> if it contains "tooltip":
>
> on mousemove x,y
> get the linktext of the mousechunk
> if it contains "tooltip" then
> set the tooltip of me to "This is a tip"
> else
> set the tooltip of me to empty
> end if
> end mousemove
>
> This time I tested it...
>
>
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