Comments on: AS3 ToolTip Class

By: Jovica Aleksic

Jovica Aleksic — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:24:32 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this great class. It’s the best one I’ve found for minimalist, application-style tooltips. The web is spammed with over-the-top solutions..

By: Wayne Helman

Wayne Helman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Sonia, you’ll need to add the font to your library. Then you can reference an instance of that font in your code. See here for a good walkthrough: http://tournasdimitrios1.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/using-embedded-fonts-with-the-flash-cs3-button-control/

By: Sonia McMAHON

Sonia McMAHON — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:16:47 +0000

This is what I have so far in order to be able to use an embedded font…
I have added these lines to the original tooltip.as
private function initTextField():void
{
_tip = new TextField();

var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.font = “Akkurat”;
_tip.embedFonts = true;
_tip.setTextFormat(myformat);

_tip.selectable = false;
_tip.mouseEnabled = false;
//_tip.wordWrap = true;
//_tip.multiline = true;
_tip.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_tip.border = false;
//_tip.borderColor = 0xFFFFFF;
_tip.background = true;
_tip.backgroundColor = 0×999999;
_tip.textColor = 0xFFFFFF ;

addChild(_tip);

}

Not working , I get the following error codes:
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: TextFormat.
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method TextFormat.
Anyone?
Some help….
Thanks.

By: Sonia McMAHON

Sonia McMAHON — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:56:11 +0000

Hi.
Very nice, easy to use tooltip…but for the love of God, have mercy and tell regular Flash as3 non-Flex people what they would have to do to use another font…?
Pleeeaaaase. I am new to as3.
Can u just specify a font in tooltip.as???
Help.

By: Wayne Helman

Wayne Helman — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:30:13 +0000

Miguel, can you post the complete stack trace and which version of Flash are you using? Also, double check your compilation settings and make sure that AS3 and >= FP9 is selected.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:53:34 +0000

Great Job, just for me don’t works, I get error #1009 in ToolTip/followMouse()

By: Social

Social — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:16:56 +0000

Thank you for this nice Tooltip, it’s a very good base to add more stuff to, thanks!

By: Wayne Helman

Wayne Helman — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:23:39 +0000

We here use FlashDevelop which allows us to pull in the Flex SDK into our Flash projects. So when we compile, we actually compile with the Flex SDK as apposed to the Flash compiler. With, Flex, you can use the Embed directive like: [Embed(source='arial.ttf', fontName = 'Arial', mimeType = 'application/x-font', unicodeRange="U+0041-U+005A")] private var Arial:Class; Hope that helps!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:07:36 +0000

Any chance od seeing a sample with embedded fonts? I’m having a bit of trouble implementing this….

By: Phil Chertok

Phil Chertok — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:31:06 +0000

Thanks Sebastian. We’ve got it working here with embedded fonts, just thought we’d throw it out there for people in the most simple way possible.