I would like to implement a pop-up help window like

[Faraclas]

When the cursos remains over a control for a certain ammount of time, some help text can then pop-up. Then the text can dissapear with more activity.

[mikeporter]

All you have to do is right-click of the control or indicator and select "Description and Tip...". In the resulting dialog enter into the "Tip" field the pop text you want to appear.

See attached example...

Mike...

[Faraclas]

This works but it is not what I am looking for. I want the tip to pop-up automatically if the cursor remains over a given control for a certain amount of time. The user should not have to click anything.

For example, in any Microsoft application, holding the pointer over a button will pop-up something (a label, tip, etc.)

[Faraclas]

I guess I didn't wait long enough. However, it took around 20-25 seconds for the tip to show up. Can I make this faster?

[mikeporter]

Yes, buy a faster computer. On my XP machine, the pop ups take 3 or 4 seconds to appear the first time. After that it's no more than a second or so.

Mike...

[wiebe@CARYA]

Hi,

This thing occures when you've just changed the description. The Help is not
refreshed. On my machine (it's fast) it takes the Help text forever to
update.

At my PC this happens only when I use the tab key to quit the 'description
and tip' window.

This is caused by the update routine of the help. Even hiding the help
(ctrl-h) and showing it again, doesn't cause the help to update. Hover above
another item, and back. Then it changes.

When I press the 'ok' button in the 'description and tip' window, LV sets
the Help to default (Add function), the result is the same as hovering above
a different item. This might be new in LV6...

When you change the description dynamiclly, with a property node, the help
is updated at
once.

Regards,

Wiebe.


"mikeporter" wrote in message
news:506500000005000000A2800000-1023576873000@exchange.ni.com...
> Yes, buy a faster computer. On my XP machine, the pop ups take 3 or 4
> seconds to appear the first time. After that it's no more than a
> second or so.
>
> Mike...

[Faraclas]

I am running windows XP. Pentium III 1.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM. This should be fast enough.

[Faraclas]

OK. I'm not sure how to explain it, but today everything is running fast enough (2-3 seconds). Thanks for all of your input.