# Dynamic baloon text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-baloon-text/200744>\
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**Created:** [September 14, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-baloon-text/200744 "2006-09-14T18:54:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![VoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@VoS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VoS)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-baloon-text/200744/1 "2006-09-14T18:54:44Z")

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Hi =D  
after a while away from flash ive decided to make a site for my pictures 😉  
im going to make a list of pictures and when the mouse scrolls over a picture i want some dynamic text to be displayed in a baloon.  
incase you dont know what i mean by baloon:  
 ![](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Art/tooltipdefault.jpg)  
except no close button and much prettier 😉

the hard part is, and were i need your guyses help is…  
how do i make it so the baloon rezises acording to how much text it needs to contain?

So to reiterate.  
baloon comes up when i move mouse over a movie clip (easy enough)  
balon contains text from a variabel ‘textVar’ (also pretty simple) 😉  
baloon is just big enough to contain the given text in the variable (…help!)  
disapears when mouse out of area ( i can do that =P)

Thanks  
//VoS