Tooltip

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        // description of your code here

this.attachMovie("tooltip","tooltip_mc",21);
tooltip_mc._visible = false; 

var tipInt; //----start or clear an interval---

button.onRollOver = function() {
	tipInt = setInterval (showTip,100,"button"); 
	//-----showTip function, 10 times a second, to the "button" string(which is the text for the tooltip)------
	if(success) {
		trace(success)
	}
};
button.onRollOut = function() {
	hideTip();
};
	
var count = 0; //-----this variable will count how long it takes to load the tip---

//--------tiptext is the instance name of the text in the tip--------
function showTip(tiptext) {
	if(count == 1) {
		clearInterval(tipInt);
		count = 0;
		tooltip_mc.tiptext.text = tiptext;
		tooltip_mc._x = _root._xmouse;
		tooltip_mc._y = _root._ymouse;
		tooltip_mc._visible = true;
		_root.onMouseMove = function() {
			tooltip_mc._x = _root._xmouse;
			tooltip_mc._y = _root._ymouse;
			updateAfterEvent(); //-----updates position even in same frame
		}
	}
	else {
		count++;
	}
};
function hideTip() {
	clearInterval(tipInt);
	tooltip_mc._visible  = false;
	delete _root.onMouseMove;
};

Tags:
• actionscript
• AS2
• tooltip