ms310 wrote: ↑April 8th, 2020, 5:51 am
Thank you so much!
You're welcome. I forgot to mention something in the included comments - for subsequent meters that you want to add custom tooltips, you should:
- set the PI variable to similarly subsequent numbers after you copy paste the needed MouseOverAction / MouseLeaveAction to those meters
- copy paste subsequent IfConditions in [MeasurePopulateTooltip], corresponding to the newly added PI values
It's obvious that such things should be done, but I mentioned them just in case you don't realize it.
goeway wrote: ↑May 17th, 2020, 11:38 pm
Thank you so much!
You're welcome! In the meantime, in my skin suite, I made positioning the tooltips in a "preferred" direction possible, by replacing the IfCondition in the [MeasureMoveTooltip] from Tooltip.ini with:
where the TD variable name is an acronym for "tooltip direction" (1 = Left, 2 = Top, 3 = Right, 4 = Bottom, all of them relative to the hovered meter). This is by no means required, it's just a "feature" that's nice to have, assuming that the TD variable is declared and initialized somewhere in either Tooltip.ini or an .inc file used by it. In my case, I use my "settings skin" to write all these little settings in a Variables.inc that's used throughout all the skins in my suite (including Tooltip.ini):
Tooltip Settings.jpg
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[MeterTooltipBorder]
Group=TooltipGroup
Meter=Shape
Shape=Rectangle 1, 1, ([MeterTooltipTitle:W] > [MeterTooltipText:W] ? ([MeterTooltipIcon:W]+[MeterTooltipTitle:W]) : ([MeterTooltipIcon:W]+[MeterTooltipText:W])), ([MeterTooltipTitle:H]+[MeterTooltipText:H]) | Fill Color 0,0,0,0 | StrokeWidth 1 | Stroke Color 180,180,180,255
DynamicVariables=1
Sure, good idea - anyone can design its tooltip skin the way he wants to, and for sure a border, or a different background color that's either not used or rarely used in your skins, helps. I didn't do it in the sample because I focused on the functionality and let the design up to the skin developer. Plus, in my skin suite (that uses tooltip skins starting with the last version), I already had a custom width bevel implemented not just in the tooltip skin, but in all skins, as it can be seen in the screenshots above. I should have probably made a thread about that as well, but I'm not sure how many users would be interested in that, considering that nowadays with the 4K monitors, the default 2 pixels of a meter's (thus, even of a skin's) BevelType option would be thin and stylish enough.
Nice addition, thanks for contributing - appreciate it.