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Tooltips

Tooltips (also known as help tags) are currently the fastest way to obtain quick help, advices or tips for individual elements of graphical user interface. FileMaker Pro solution developers and users got the first chance to use tooltips in FIleMaker Pro solutions with the release of 24U SimpleHelp Plug-In 1.0 back in spring 2003. At DevCon 2005, FileMaker Inc., finally announced FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced with built-in support for defining tooltips.

There is currently no excuse for not using tooltips in your solutions. We hope that the growing archive of tooltip tricks available here will help you to get most out of tooltips and turn them into a significant competitive advantage of your solutions.

  Localized Tooltips          Download

This example demontrates three different approaches to implementing and managing multilingual tooltips using new features of FileMaker Pro 8.

Examine this file to see how to store all your tooltips in a single database table and easily switch between multiple languages or tooltip sets.

Learn how to access related data via the GetNthRecord function, how to use global variables as arrays, and how to create variables with dynamically assigned names on the fly.


Type: freeware




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Localized Tooltips   Mac OS X, Windows, 76 KB, freeware   LocalizedTooltips.sit
        LocalizedTooltips.zip