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Back to the Tooltip

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I love my Tooltip, I really do. There isn’t a project where I haven’t used, abused and made it do unspeakable deeds. In fact, I’m surprised it hasn’t filed a lawsuit against me, for unpaid overtime. But I’ll be the first to admit that the original version was just a little bit flawed.

Ok, maybe not the first to admit it – quite a few of you noticed the strange wrapping bug when used with short strings, and I recieved many requests to have it move with the mouse, fade-in and out, and even support custom shapes.

Well, now it does all that, and more…
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Posted in actionscript2, flash | 23 Comments »

NoCache for JavaScript and Flash

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I just spent a very frustrating day wrangling with cached images. Both JavaScript and Flash have trouble updating dymanic images, when these are cached by the browser. This can be a problem if, for example, your website has sets of images, such as catalogues, that could be updated at any time. Or if the website needs to constantly reload a single image with the same filename, such as a self-updating webcam image.

In my case, it was both. After delving into numerous Internet sources, with some trial and even more error, I finally distilled a solution that, with slight adjustments, works for both JavaScript and Flash.
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Posted in actionscript2, flash, javascript | 14 Comments »

Tooltip

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

This article explains some of the uses, properties, and customisation of the Rich Text Tooltip for Flash (versions 7 and higher). A tooltip can be very helpful for the user interface of applications, development tools, websites, multimedia, interactive maps, and games. It’s a great way to keep your interface free of clutter, and still supply information at a glance about any one of the elements. The demo flash movie shows how the tooltip can be used as it’s own tutorial – just roll over any of the items in the demo to see what the tooltip can do:

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The tooltip comes in the form of static class methods and does not require any assets on the stage or in the library, as it is created and destroyed on the fly. It needs to reside in your global or local classpath, in a folder structure corresponding to the package com.neoarchaic.ui. After the package has been imported, you create the tooltip simply by calling the static show() method:

import com.neoarchaic.ui.Tooltip;
Tooltip.show(“Hi, I'm the tooltip, see what I can do!”);

And destroy it by calling the static hide() method:

Tooltip.hide();

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Posted in actionscript2, flash | 36 Comments »