[Chameleon] Script called when hovering over any chameleon element for detailed online help

[Paul Spencer]

Carlo, the problem is that the images trap onmouseover events to  
handle the various button states.  What might be a useful extension  
to chameleon would be for button-based widgets to support attributes  
for mouseover and mouseout.  The function calls could then be  
integrated into the regular processing of the image swapping code and  
everything would work normally.  I don't really see a reliable way to  
fix this without extending the chameleon core code though.

All the modifications for this could be made to Button.php and  
cwc_button.js.  If you attempt it and it works, please consider  
contributing it.

Cheers

Paul

On 24-Jan-06, at 9:36 AM, Carlo Tronnberg wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I want to call a javascript when hovering over any chameleon  
> element. The actual purpose ios to pop up a detailed help of the  
> different features for new users after selecting a help button.
>
> I managed to make it work under Firefox, by surrounding the each  
> element with either:
>
> <!-- ZOOMIN -->
>       <td><div onmouseover="doTooltip(event, zoomInMsgTips)"  
> onmouseout="hideTip()"><cwc2 type="ZoomIn" visible="true"  
> imagetip="Zoom In" image="icons/icon_zoomin.png"  
> toolset="Navigation" styleresource="NavButtons">
>               <image state="normal"/>
>               <image state="hover"/>
>               <image state="selected"/>
>           </cwc2></div></td>
> or:
> <!-- ZOOMOUT -->
>       <td onmouseover="doTooltip(event, zoomOutMsgTips)"  
> onmouseout="hideTip()"><cwc2 type="ZoomOut" visible="true"  
> imagetip="Zoom Out" image="icons/icon_zoomout.png"  
> toolset="Navigation" styleresource="NavButtons">
>               <image state="normal"/>
>               <image state="hover"/>
>               <image state="selected"/>
>           </cwc2></td>
>
> Unfortunately this does not work properly in IE: The help layer  
> pops up are it should only if the mouse pointer is on for example a  
> navigation button BUT NOT on the buttons image. In other words,  
> only when I carefully position the pointer on the border.
>
> Any idea how to solve this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carlo
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