Popup Help

by **dalanik** on Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:52 am

OK, everyone has a right to a certain share of dumb questions, I guess it's my time now :-)

What does Popup help mean and do?

I noticed a checkbox in F2 Setup and event in event manager, but I have no idea what does this do in practice?

Thanx,

Dalibor

by **jowaldo** on Fri Oct 01, 2004 3:40 pm

You can have "popup" tooltips in a skin, so when the mouse pointer hovers over a button you can have something pop up to describe it, or whatever you want. With that option tho, it can be turned off, so they won't show up for you.

You can even set up buttons in a skin to toggle this on/off.

If you want to see how it works I have it in my skin. Just hold the mouse over practically any button on the music screen. On the help screen, you can see the toggle button too.

http://www.xlobby.com/files/jowaldo/jowaldo.zip

by **dalanik** on Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:30 am

Isn't this (or similar) functionality available through "set button text" command?

And how does this popup work? Do you have to create each POPUP, or they're created automatically? Where do you specify tooltip (help) for each button?

D.

by **jowaldo** on Mon Oct 04, 2004 3:39 pm

Its really similar to the show/hide function that a lot of people use on their main menu screens. You basically just do a show/hide image, shape or text, and give it an ID like you would any other show/hide object, but in front of that ID you put a pop-

So the ID for a object that normally was called mainmenu would end up being pop-mainmenu

The pop- just is a flag so if the user doesn't want the pop up tips to show, they can quickly turn them off... even from the skin.