Hover Popup in InTouch

[Luke Patterson]

Hi, I'm trying to get "hover popup" behavior to work, and am running into some difficulties. By "hover popup", I mean: a) when the mouse hovers over my icon, a smaller screen with contextual information will show at the cursor location b) when I navigate away (move the mouse away) from the popup, the popup will hide (close) automatically So, I'm getting close with: a) in my icon's touch "On Mouse Over" "Action Script", { show my popup window, which is positioned over the icon so that the mouse will be underneath the popup when it opens } Show("My Popup"); b) in "My Popup" window's "On Show" script: DIM result AS DISCRETE; { the system will set the PopupContextIdentifier tag to my UUID when I hover over My Window } result = WWContext("My Popup", 0, 0, 10000, 10000, PopupContextIdentifier.Name, "51ca9bd1-b2cd-479c-b6e6-2430569d88ee"); c) in "My Popup" window's "While Showing" script: { close if PopupContextIdentifier isn't my UUID that I set in "On Show" } IF (PopupContextIdentifier <> "51ca9bd1-b2cd-479c-b6e6-2430569d88ee") THEN HideSelf; ENDIF; The problem is, "While Showing" is called before the window is showing, and so PopupContextIdentifier isn't set yet, and then my popup window immediately closes. I can sorta do a half-workaround by making a longer "Every x Msec" delay in my "While Showing" script, but I've already crept up to 1 second and I still occasionally see the problem. I don't want to go too much higher or else the "navigate away to close" behavior is too slow. Thoughts? I tried to use the "Wonderware Developer Network", but I don't think it is monitored anymore. I posted something last week to a forum but the moderator(s) haven't reviewed my posting yet. Thanks, Luke

[EasyButton]

Maybe you could have the "On Mouse Over" close any open popups but you may have icons being hidden under the popup... Maybe you could do a time delay (tag = tag+1; If tag = 2 then...), not clean but it should work.

[Luke Patterson]

Thanks, EasyButton. I eventually went with a QuickFunction I called "CloseIfCursorOutsideWindow": DIM UseDesktop AS INTEGER; UseDesktop = 1; GetWindowPosition( WindowName, WnPosition\Left.Name, WnPosition\Top.Name, WnPosition\Right.Name, WnPosition\Bottom.Name, UseDesktop); GetCursorPosition( Cursor\X.Name, Cursor\Y.Name, UseDesktop); IF ( (Cursor\X < WnPosition\Left) OR (Cursor\X > WnPosition\Right) OR (Cursor\Y < WnPosition\Top) OR (Cursor\Y > WnPosition\Bottom) ) THEN Hide(WindowName); ENDIF; It has a WindowName (Message) argument. I had to use a couple of the addon libraries so I could have GetWindowPosition and GetCursorPosition functions. Now my popup windows just use a "While Showing" script: CALL CloseIfCursorOutsideWindow("my popup"); Thanks, Luke