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Tooltips in Animate ActionScript

Explorer ,
Jun 26, 2022 Jun 26, 2022

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Hi everyone, 

 

I wonder if someone can help me as I'm at my wit's end here.  I'm trying to create tooltip popups over icons for a particular part of my website, and everything I've tried has one flaw or another.  All I want is for a mouse to scroll over these icons and a popup appear with a description, that disappears again once your mouse moves away, or onto the next icon.  No doubt I'll get a lot of recommendations for using button MouseOvers for this, and I've tried that, the problem with that is that the popup tooltip ends up forming part of the button and increasing it's size, therefore interfering with other buttons.  What I really need is for the popup text to NOT be considered part of the button, but only appears during a mouse over event.

 

I'm attaching an image for reference on what I've tried.  As I'm sure you've guessed, a user can't even move to the next icon as the current method of tooltip popup ends up obscuring the other buttons.

 

Screenshot 2022-06-26 at 15.16.21.png

 

I've also tried placing the "tooltip" elsewhere on the screen, away from the icons, but in doing so the invisible size of the button then extends far out to whereever the text ends up being, creating rollover events in places I don't want them to be.  

 

Any help someone could give would be massively appreciated.

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Community Expert , Jun 26, 2022 Jun 26, 2022

Hi.

 

You can achieve this interaction without code.

 

The big catch here is that you must place a instance in the Hit frame that is the size of the circle area that you have on your buttons.

 

image.png

 

Here is a sample:

https://bit.ly/3OpMLpd

 

I hope it helps.

 

Regards,

JC

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Community Expert ,
Jun 26, 2022 Jun 26, 2022

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Hi.

 

You can achieve this interaction without code.

 

The big catch here is that you must place a instance in the Hit frame that is the size of the circle area that you have on your buttons.

 

image.png

 

Here is a sample:

https://bit.ly/3OpMLpd

 

I hope it helps.

 

Regards,

JC

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Jun 26, 2022 Jun 26, 2022

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Oh wow, so you used a MovieClip to animate the tooltip, thank you so much! This works exactly how I wanted, I am very grateful to you

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Excellent! You're welcome!

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