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Actionscript Classes » ToolTip — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:40:39 +0000

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» Blog Archive » Captivate Tutorials. Oh My ! — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:49:04 +0000

[...] FlashCodersNY recently aquired a copy of Captivate. Now we can create video tutorials with screen capture. Our own Alan Shaw has created the first of many AS2 and AS3 tutorials using Captivate. Special thanks to Alan for his tooltip demo ( stay tuned for part 2 ). [...]

By: alan

alan — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:15:49 +0000

I’m sorry, Seth, I haven’t seen that behavior here. Trace 1 is _never_ triggered?

By: Shi11

Shi11 — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:06:58 +0000

Nice. Can I post another question about this class? In the showToolTip function pasted below, trace “1″ is never triggered. For me, the ToolTip isn’t created until the second time I rollOver a button. Seth

private static function showToolTip(tip:String):Void
{
trace(”0″);
if (theOnlyToolTip == undefined)
{
trace(”1″);
theOnlyToolTip = new ToolTip();
}
trace(”2″);
theOnlyToolTip.p_showToolTip(tip);
}

By: alan

alan — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:32:59 +0000

No, actually at the time I wrote this the mtasc compiler allowed a class to have a static method and an instance method with the same name! That’s been changed, and I think the Flash compiler never allowed it. You’re the first to notice this!

So I’ve updated the code above. The new version also takes care of flipping the tooltip if it’s too close to the top or right edge of the window.

By: Shi11

Shi11 — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:07:38 +0000

Hi nodename, nice work. In testing your code, I’m getting one error:

**Error** src/com/nodename/utils/ToolTip.as: Line 127: The same member name may not be repeated more than once.
private function showToolTip(tip:String):Void

**Error** src/com/nodename/utils/ToolTip.as: Line 150: The same member name may not be repeated more than once.
private function hideToolTip():Void

Is it a singleton thing perhaps?

By: Lee Brimelow

Lee Brimelow — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:35:41 +0000

Awesome work! I wish there was a way for me to do a tutorial that goes into this much depth, but it would probably be around 2 hours long :-)

By: Mark Holton

Mark Holton — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:34:29 +0000

…thanks for this great expansion on Lee’s tutorial. This is very useful code to me (and I’m guessing many others).
Many thanks-
Mark Holton