Floating Tooltips and Hotspots

Learn how to add floating tooltips to hotspots.

  • This tip carries on from making a Floating Tooltip which you may wish to view first.

Download the Skin
Download Video

Setting up the Text Box

  1. In Skin Editor, open the text box that will act as the floating tooltip (see: Creating a Floating Tooltip).
  2. In the Text Element Properties, enter an asterisk (*) in the Hotspot Proxy ID field.
    Floating tooltip working with hotspots 1.jpg
  3. Add the following actions:
    Floating tooltip working with hotspots 2.jpg

Now when the mouse pointer enters a hotspot, the wild card (*) in the Hotspot Proxy ID will activate the actions in the text box and will cause the text box to show, while the $hs placeholder will display the hotspot’s title.

See also

Floating Tooltip