Tooltips in as3

Thanks to the community and especially to dzedward for all your help in answering this question. Gumpster.

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Sorry for not returning to this earlier, will you please zip up all files, including dependent files and post a link so I can download and see what is happening.

toolTip would be the class name of the movie clip in your library. right click it in the library, click 'linkage', and give it a class name of, toolTip.

forgot the text part :) In the 'over' function where you instantiate the new toolTip, set the text fields text property to whatever you want, ie:

function over(e:MouseEvent):void{
myToolTip = new toolTip();
myToolTip.x = mouseX;
myToolTip.y = mouseY;
myToolTip.myTxt.text = "Some Text";
addChild(myToolTip);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveTool);
};

its pretty simple. create a movie clip and set it to export, then instatiate the movie clip when whatever actions occurs, listen for the enterFrame event to move the tool tip with the mouse.. something like this:

var myToolTip:toolTip; // toolTip would be the class name

uiLoader.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, over);
uiLoader.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, out);

function over(e:MouseEvent):void{
myToolTip = new toolTip();
myToolTip.x = mouseX;
myToolTip.y = mouseY;
addChild(myToolTip);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveTool);
};
function out(e:MouseEvent):void{
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveTool);
removeChild(myToolTip);
};
function moveTool(e:Event):void{
myToolTip.x = mouseX;
myToolTip.y = mouseY;
};