Appreciated.

-B

Karina

I just integrated ObjectSwap into a new Flash project, that has a preloader swf which loads the main content into itself.
(http://www.burrenlearning.org/)

I am using the latest OOP version, so maybe you could give it a try. One of the main differences is that it’s not using window.onLoad but DOM event listeners, which means it fires-up quicker instead of waiting for the whole page to load.

Or if you’re using a different type of preloader, there could be some unknown conflict, and then you might need a different solution – but try the DOM version first and let me know what happens.

Karina

import flash.system.Capabilities

url = ‘file.xml’;

if (Capabilities.playerType == “PlugIn” || // non IE browsers
Capabilities.playerType == “ActiveX”) { // IE browser
url += “?nocache=”+new Date().getTime();
}

You don’t need to touch Tooltip.as at all – any property changes should be done from outside of it, by passing the property to the script.

This can be done either locally, by passing the property in the tooltip call:

Tooltip.show(”I’m a simple tooltip”, {bgClip: “MySymbol”});

or globally :

Tooltip.setOption (bgClip, “MySymbol”); //for changing a single property

Tooltip.options= ({bgClip: “MySymbol”}); //for changing one or more properties

- where “MySymbol” is the link name you give your movieclip symbol in the library, after exporting it for actionScript.

Note that if you want to use the movieclip symbol property, and it’s shape is other than rectangle, you might need to tweak some other properties like margins and/or alignment, because other shapes don’t stretch as well as a rect.

Karina

Thanks so much for the Tooltip! I have a question on adding a movieClip symbol as a bgClip.

To do this do I need to change, in Tooltip.as, bgClip:null to bgClip:true ? Then how would I call the movieClip in the line Tooltip.show(“I’m a simple tooltip”); ?

Thanks again,
Scott