# Tool Tip on movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tool-tip-on-movie-clip/192718>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 30, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tool-tip-on-movie-clip/192718 "2006-06-30T13:56:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![schweez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@schweez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/schweez)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tool-tip-on-movie-clip/192718/1 "2006-06-30T13:56:32Z")

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Sorry if this has been covered someplace else, but I have been searching and have found nothing so far.  
I am making a photo gallery that loads pictures from a xml file. I have an empty movieclip on the stage that the photos are loaded into. I want a tool tip to pop up when the mouse is on the picture. I have all the code for the tool tip working(it works fine on any of my buttons or text boxes) but not on the movie clip. If I trace the height and width of the movie clip, it says undefined, so I tried adding content to the clip so that is it the same size as the pictures, but still did not work.

```auto
picture.onRollOver = function() {
[INDENT] captionFN(true, description[p], this);
[/INDENT] [INDENT] this.onRollOut = function() {
[/INDENT] [INDENT] [INDENT] captionFN(false);
  [/INDENT] [/INDENT] [INDENT] };
[/INDENT] };

```

picture is my movieclip. captionFN is just the function that turns the tool tip on and off. Any help would be greatly appreciated!