Hover captions

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I’m having a hard time figuring out why my hover captions won’t show up when i put it on my main swf file. I’m wondering if it has something to do with finding the correct path? I tried reading up on lockroot but doesn’t seem to work. I think it has something to do with the _global. thingy but not that familar with it. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

I’m using kirupa’s hover caption

P.S i made sure all the codes are the same

2

bump?

i tried it with tooltip version from ffiles.com yet still the same. i’m just curious as to why the as codes break when i add more things to it. the output doesn’t give me any errors. any suggetions?

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still no luck. I tried it on another fla and that seem to work. I’m clueless as to why the tool tip won’t work for my orginal main fla. Is it because i have alot of other AS in it that is conflicting with the tool tip AS. I still believe its the _global that is messing the tool tip codes, or maybe its the swapdepths?

I don’t know what else to try.

4

Without a fla or code hard to say what’s wrong :wink:

scotty(-:

5

i’ll try to strip the fla down.

6

maybe whn you’re changing the text, you have given the textarea an instance name when it needs to be var, or vise versa

7

the fla is too big to send. Is there another way i can send it?

when i create a container and load the tooltip.swf into the main swf the captions work. So i’m guessing it is the pathing issue and i’m pretty sure it has something to do with _global. …

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scotty here is the toolip codes inside a mc tool

titulo.autoSize = “center”;
titulo.multiline = “false”;
_alpha = 0;
this.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighestDepth());
_global.MovieClip.prototype.vaiToll = function(oque) {
titulo.text = oque;
mask.tween("_width", Math.floor(titulo._width+5), 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
fd.tween("_width", Math.floor(titulo._width+5), 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
ld_d.tween("_x", Math.floor(titulo._width/2+3), 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
ld_e.tween("_x", Math.floor(-titulo._width/2), 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
_x = this._x+this._width/2;
_y = this._y;
_alpha = 0;
alphaTo(100, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
tween("_y", this._y-30, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
_root.getNextHighestDepth();
};
_global.MovieClip.prototype.saiToll = function() {
titulo.text = “”;
mask.tween("_width", 20, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
fd.tween("_width", 20, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
ld_d.tween("_x", 10, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
ld_e.tween("_x", -8, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
alphaTo(0, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
tween("_y", this._y, 0.5, “easeinoutBack”);
};

9

Please use the as tags, e.g. [noparse]

 your code here

[/noparse]. :slight_smile:

Also, do you have server space for a webpage? You can always load an fla there and link to it here. :hr:

10

Check your PM

scotty(-:

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Hey Gupps, I dont’ think you provided enough information for us to help you on this forum. But I do have this piece of advice:

It seems it started off as easier to fix the problem than to redo it. But it has gotten to be such a pain that if a fix is possible it will take you forever. Just redo it. http://gotoandlearn.com/ has a great tutorial for this called Flash tooltips.

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soig, thanks. but it is working, just thatwhen i put it into the main swf with more AS and mc and graphics the tooltip breaks. it has something to do with the paths as it works when i load the tooltip swf into the main swf

13

i should say it isn’t working when added to the main swf. still need help

14

any luck scotty. Or you didn’t manage to get my fla.