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Is there a way to make hover-text in SKILL?

thewill2live

I have a program with a form that has a series of checkboxes. I want users to be able to hover their mouse  over a specific checkbox and get a help message that provides a little more detail than what is listed as the name next to the check box. Is there a function built in for this?

  • B Bruekers

    You can do this 'tooltip' only on the complete form.

    Use the axlFormSetMouseActive(form) after calling the axlFormCreate.

    Then in your form callback function you can check for a mouse movement:

    when(fw->mouseActive
        cond(
            ( nindex(fw->curField  "bDone")     axlUIWPrint(fw "Done Button"))
            ( nindex(fw->curField  "bCancel")   axlUIWPrint(fw "Cancel Button"))
        )
    )

    the axlUIWPrint prints the msg on the bottomline of the form window. For this you need to put a "MESSAGE" line in the form file.

    See also the Allegro SKILL Reference documentation: MESSAGE messageLabel messagePriority "text".

  • eDaNoy
    axlFormSetMouseActive only works for Allegro 16.6? How about mouse coordinates during mouse move event?
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