Trying to be creative with tooltips

Shap5202 · Post by **Shap5202** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:03 pm

We have a 'please wait' type of icon we display when the system is processing a request. Since tooltips can handle HTML... i wanted it to be that when you submit a request, basically a tooltip follows the mouse around (followtip=1) with the wait icon.

Already have a javascript method that gets called any time the url changes. So i can detect that. Basically it's like i want to show the tooltip on body mouseover. But that doesnt work quite right

If i move the mouse all the off the browser then back on, it seems to pick up the tooltip. But at this point I'm just trying random things. any thoughts?

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script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
		function bodyMove(){
			if(enterPressed == true){
				showtip('<img src='wait.gif>', 1);
			}
		}
	</script>

<body onmouseover="bodyMove()">

The enterPressed variable being a global js var set when a request is submitted.