Thanks Jaque, Jim and Richard for the insights - you've given me the necessary ingredients for a workaround.
I'm surprised that such measures are necessary for a net-aware development environment - and I can't find any requests on the QA forum to address this issue. So, I've added this feature request in the QA forum to add 'Messages and pointer cursor over hyperlinks in fields' http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9609 Best, Keith.. > <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... > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode