Configure ToolTips

You can create ToolTips to give users information about an object on the screen by using tooltip links. ToolTips appear when the pointer moves over the object, and disappears when the pointer is moved away. The duration of time the tooltip appears and the positioning of the tooltip are determined by the operating system.

You can set either an expression or static text for your tooltips.

• Create a static tooltip to show the same message every time the tooltip appears.

• Create an expression tooltip so that every time the tooltip appears, the expression is evaluated and shown as the tooltip text.

For the following example expression, the text appears as the current value of the msgTooltipTag01 message tag.

msgTooltipTag01

For this example, the literal string appears followed by the current value of the iTemp tag and the result appears as the tooltip text:

"Current temp. is " + StringFromIntg (iTemp,10)

The width of the Tooltip window can be changed in Windows 7 and later versions of Windows. You can edit the InTouch.INI file to add an entry for Tooltip width.

Examples:

• Tooltipwidth=200

• A value of -1 (Tooltipwidth=-1) shows tooltip text on a single line without a line break

• If no tooltip width is specified, the default width of the tooltip window is 88.

Create a tooltip link

1. Select the object you want to apply the animation to.

2. On the Draw menu, in the Mode group, select Animate.

   Alternatively, right-click the object and then select Animation Links.

   The Animation Links window appears.

3. In the Miscellaneous section, select Tooltip.

   The Object Tooltip -> String Tagname dialog box appears.

   

4. In the Tooltip Attributes section, select either Expression or Static text.

   • If you select Expression, enter an expression that evaluates to a message value. This can be a simple message tagname or a more complex expression.

   • If you select Statictext, enter a static message, up to 131 characters, as the tooltip text.

5. Select OK.