Detect Tooltip use

[Alan Davey]

Hi Mike,

Yes, you can put a method behind the $tooltip property to do this:
$tooltip = [$cinst.$myMethod()]

Then put whatever code you want in that method to detect the tooltip being
fired.  Finally have the method return a string that you would want
displayed for your particular tooltip.

Regards,

Alan

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM Mike Matthews - Omnis via omnisdev-en <
omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Can you detect when the tooltip is shown and then do something as a
> result?  I’m still looking at options for a good way to access a user guide
> for the relevant part.
>
> This part of the guide would just be for ‘what is this field?’, rather
> than ‘how do I do a function?’ Or ‘What is this screen for?’ kind of
> question.
>
> Those questions come later, as writing and integrating a user
> manual/guide/tech ref is really hard.  Maybe a good topic for
> www.euromnis.com<http://www.euromnis.com> 5th Oct 2025 possibly?  Who
> would like to know more?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Matthews
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