# Hover captions **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 22, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970 "2006-03-22T21:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/1 "2006-03-22T21:00:31Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/2 "2006-03-24T00:24:09Z")
bump? i tried it with tooltip version from [ffiles.com](http://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? ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/3 "2006-03-24T15:22:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/4 "2006-03-25T12:59:17Z")
Without a fla or code hard to say what’s wrong 😉 scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/5 "2006-03-26T00:10:33Z")
i’ll try to strip the fla down. ---
**Author:** ![nathan99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nathan99](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nathan99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/6 "2006-03-26T01:29:09Z")
maybe whn you’re changing the text, you have given the textarea an instance name when it needs to be var, or vise versa ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/7 "2006-03-27T16:57:47Z")
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. … ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/8 "2006-03-27T17:00:36Z")
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”); }; ---
**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/9 "2006-03-27T17:09:27Z")
Please use the as tags, e.g. [noparse] ```auto your code here ``` [/noparse]. 🙂 Also, do you have server space for a webpage? You can always load an fla there and link to it here. :hr: ---
**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/10 "2006-03-28T07:13:39Z")
Check your PM scotty(-: ---
**Author:** ![Soig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Soig](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soig)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/11 "2006-03-28T14:48:32Z")
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/](http://gotoandlearn.com/) has a great tutorial for this called Flash tooltips. ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/12 "2006-03-28T14:55:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/13 "2006-03-28T14:57:09Z")
i should say it isn’t working when added to the main swf. still need help ---
**Author:** ![Gupps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gupps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gupps)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hover-captions/182970/14 "2006-03-29T21:26:48Z")
any luck scotty. Or you didn’t manage to get my fla.