I need a tip about tooltips

[Robert E. Green]

Is there a way to include tooltips into a solution so that a user can turn them all on or off with a single button or menu choice?

 

Thanks,

Bob Green

[Maarten Witberg]

Yes, since tooltips can be calculations, you can use a preference setting like this:

 

-create a global called gShowToolTips, number.

 

put the following calc int the tooltip box:

 

Case(Globals::ShowToolTips=1;"This is a tooltip")

 

you can either set the global to a default value (null or 1) at startup or create a prefs table, one record to a user. At login, the user's prefs are read into this global (and possibly other settings as well).

 

maarten

[AHunter3]

I think it requires FileMaker Advanced to create them, though.