How to show information when user drag mouse over an object?

[Mari]

Hello

Is it possible to show text when the user moves the mouse over certain objects? And if it is possible to implement in labview, how is it done?

-Mari

[altenbach]

Well, your question is not very specific, so here are a few possible answers.

(A) If you are talking about "tip strips", the small text boxes that might appear if you hover over an object, do the following:

Right-click on the desired FP object and select "Description and tip...". Whatever you type into the "Tip" Field will apear as a tip strip when hovering.

(Make sure that you have tips enabled in the LabVIEW options for the front panel (enabled by default)).

(B) If you want to be more fancy and for example update the content of a text box when the mouse moves over certain objects, use an event structure with appropriate mouse enter/mouse leave events and then do whatever you want when they happen. 😉

[Mari]

Thank you very much. I went for solution A). That was exactly what I was looking for

[GerdW]

Hello Mari,

you can combine solutions a and b from altenbach: there's a property 'tip text' for controls, so you can change the text shown at runtime and leave the display handling up to LV...

[SKS]

hi altenbach

iam new user to Labwindows..

i want to know how to make a listbox item to be displayed when i

move ouse over it

waiting for your reply

regds

SKS

[altenbach]

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@SKS wrote:
iam new user to Labwindows..

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I only know LabVIEW.

For Labwindows questions, you should ask over in the labwindows forum: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board?board.id=180

Good luck!

[J.Willems]

thanks for the info. It gave me the answer I was looking for.