tooltips

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's possible but just in case.
Does anyone know how to:
- create a multi line tooltip?
- change how long it is displayed?

Thanks for your time.

[Anonymous]

For a new line in a tooltip, I think you can use

\n

Which will insert a carriage return in the tooltip/

Look up escape characters in the maxscript help file.
I don't know about the duration issue though.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for answering, zzubnik.
\n doesn't work. It is ignored (not displayed in the tooltip) but everything stays on one line.

[Anonymous]

That is strange, I tried it before I posted and it worked. I have just tried this line with a tool-tip, and it definitely works.

button btn1 "Colorize" pos: width:97 height:18 tooltip: "first line \n second line"

Hope this helps.

EDIT: Not to be outdone, I've also added an image attachment (yes, I am bored) 🐵

[Steve_Curley]

    button btnSelect "&Select" pos: width:49 height:36 Tooltip:("Multi"+"\n"+"Line"+"\n"+"Tooltip")

AFAIK the time a tooltip is displayed is controlled by windows. It may be possible to alter / override that time, but I have a feeling you would need to be working at a much lower level than is exposed by MXS (ie. the SDK) if it is indeed possible to begin with.

zzubnik's method should work too, but if you leave a space after the \ n that space will be displayed

[Anonymous]

Strange indeed. It seems to depend on context.
I tried this:

rollout rlt "test" width:100 height:100
(
    button btn1 "button" pos: width:50 height:20 tooltip: "first line \n second line"
)
createDialog rlt 100    100

and got this:

Edit: I'm using max 9. Could it be that?

[Steve_Curley]

(
local test
    
rollout test "test"
    (
    button btnSelect "Select" pos: width:80 height:24 Tooltip:"Multi\nLine\nTooltip"
    button btnCreate "Create" pos: width:80 height:24
    )
    
try (destroyDialog test) catch()
CreateDialog  test 
)
 

Yes - that's your problem, it fails here in Max 9 also. Time to upgrade? 😛

[Anonymous]

I just tried your code. It works fine on 2009, but in max 9 it doesn't display the tooltip correctly.

EDIT: Steve, you type too fast for me!

[Anonymous]

Ok then. Thanks a lot, guys.

Time to upgrade?

I'd rather wait to see where it's heading.

[Steve_Curley]

The typing is fast, correcting all the typos takes ages... 😄

Cap - point taken. That should have been in ... tags (TIC = Tongue in cheek) 🙂

[Anonymous]

I know this thread has been dead for almost a year but:

I ran across the need for a multi-line tooltip on an imgTag (to show RGBA values in an orderly fashion). However multi-line tooltip fails here. I tried the imgTag as a button and it works just fine. SO: imgTag cannot have multi-line tooltip (as of max 2010)