# Hover Captions...again

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 27, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760 "2002-05-27T18:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/1 "2002-05-27T18:03:57Z")

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Hi,\r\rI asked before, but haven’t heard if anyone has encountered the similar problem. Anyone out there make a hover caption and when the page loads it follows the cursor everywhere, minus the text, and only works properly after you Rollout - I have tried everything.\r\rcome now, someone must have screwed things up like I have,\r\rCheers,\r\rBeano

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/2 "2002-05-27T18:09:00Z")

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You can try that :

```auto
  onClipEvent (load) {\r\r this._alpha = 0 ;\r\r}

```

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/3 "2002-05-28T02:17:25Z")

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Hey,\r\rThanks for the suggestion. \r\ronClipEvent (enterFrame) {\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp if (\_root.x==1) {\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp this.\_alpha = 40;\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp } else {\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp this.\_alpha = 0;\r&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp }\r}\r\rThis is the current code I used from the hover caption tutorial here. I replaced the code with your sugestion, but the same problem occured. so I had to change the text box to the background color. I lose the box around the text, but you now only see the words when you actually hover. Problem not sloved, but the effect works for me.\r\rThanks for your help.\r\rBeano

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/4 "2002-05-28T07:30:11Z")

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No no no. Send me your fla, I’ll check it. And by the way, it was onClipEvent (load) in my last post…\r\rpom 0]

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/5 "2002-05-28T18:04:50Z")

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Hey,\r\rWill do - I’ll send the FLA when I get me butt home. But have you had a peek at the Hover captions tutorial? Are you suggesting that the code is wrong? \r\rTill we meet again,\r\rBeano

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**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/6 "2002-05-28T20:27:14Z")

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Actually, I read that tutorial quickly, and I made my own hover caption from it (a little bit better 😃 ) but basically it’s exactly the same thing. And it’s working. But if it’s not working for you, what I wrote may be a solution.\r\rpom 0]

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/7 "2002-05-29T11:59:23Z")

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Hey,\r\rYeah, it still isn’t working the way it should. I’d certainly love to see the tutorial you wrote - Care to share???\r\rThanks,\r\rBeano

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**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions-again/1760/8 "2002-05-29T12:17:23Z")

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No no no, I didn’t write a tutorial, I made a slightly different Hover Caption.\rSo there’s a clip called \*\* tooltip\*\*, containing a texte whose VAR is \*\* texte\*\*, and a background movie clip called \*\* bkg\*\*. On Cli :

```auto
 OnClipEvent (load) {\r\r this.swapDepths (10000) ;\r\r this.bkg._alpha = 0 ;\r\r this.texte = " ";\r\r}\r\ronClipEvent (enterFrame) {\r\r this._x = _root._xmouse ;\r\r this._y = _root._ymouse ;\r\r}

```

Then on the buttons :

```auto
 on (rollOver) {\r\r _root.tooltip.bkg._alpha = 75 ;\r\r _root.tooltip.texte = "Yo tell me what you want what you really really want" ;\r\r}on (rollOut) {\r\r _root.tooltip.texte = " " ;\r\r _root.tooltip._alpha = 0 ;\r\r}

```

I hope it will help.\r\rpom 0]