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Floating Tooltips and Hotspots

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This tip carries on from making a Floating Tooltip which you may wish to view first.


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Setting up the Text Box

  1. Open the Skin Editor, locate the text box you created (see: Creating a Floating Tooltip), and then double-click it to open the Text Element Properties.

  2. In the Settings tab, enter an asterisk (*) in the Hotspot Proxy ID field.
    Floating tooltip working with hotspots 1.jpg

  3. Now click the Actions/Modifiers tab and add the following actions:

    Floating tooltip working with hotspots 2.jpg

Now, when the mouse pointer enters an area or point hotspot, the wild card, * , in the Hotspot Proxy ID, will activate the actions in the text box and will cause the text box to show, while the $hs placeholder will display the hotspot's title.


See also

Floating Tooltip



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This page was last modified on 17 November 2011, at 09:54.


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