Sharon_ Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi friends , I am creating a VI where I have a lot of options to be used by the users. So, I want to use some kind of help menu - e.g when we move the mouse pointer over the controls , Labview automatically shows some hint -for t seconds and disappears or it should disappear when the mouse is moved from the object . (in the event structure(Mouse Move)?!) It is not a pop up menu, where the user needs to click something to close the menu.. Now the question is - how to create/show 'hint' messages? Thanks for your time.... Sharon Quote Link to comment
jgcode Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 (edited) Hi friends , I am creating a VI where I have a lot of options to be used by the users. So, I want to use some kind of help menu - e.g when we move the mouse pointer over the controls , Labview automatically shows some hint -for t seconds and disappears or it should disappear when the mouse is moved from the object . (in the event structure(Mouse Move)?!) It is not a pop up menu, where the user needs to click something to close the menu.. Now the question is - how to create/show 'hint' messages? Thanks for your time.... Sharon Hi Sharon One way to do this is to use the Description and Tip of a control. When the VI is running and the user hovers the mouse over the control the Tip Strip will appear. When the user open the Context Help and hovers over the control the Description will be updated. No need for events, as it all handled internally. Edited November 30, 2009 by jgcode Quote Link to comment
Sharon_ Posted November 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi Sharon One way to do this is to use the Description and Tip of a control. When the VI is running and the user hovers the mouse over the control the Tip Strip will appear. When the user open the Context Help and hovers over the control the Description will be updated. No need for events, as it all handled internally. Thanks for the reply jgcode. That's exactly what I want. It is so simple...uff I'm sorry... Quote Link to comment
jgcode Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Thanks for the reply jgcode. That's exactly what I want. It is so simple...uff I'm sorry... Cool Quote Link to comment
Lodestar Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi Sharon One way to do this is to use the Description and Tip of a control. When the VI is running and the user hovers the mouse over the control the Tip Strip will appear. When the user open the Context Help and hovers over the control the Description will be updated. No need for events, as it all handled internally. Good. I have never paid attention before. Quote Link to comment
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