Tooltips for glossary entries?

[RallyeGuy]

I'm generating a webhelp pro project in RH8. Is there a way to change in-place glossary items from expanding text to tooltips? Basically i want to mimic the MSDN behaviour where when you click on a glossary item on a page, a little window pops up displaying the definition and when you click either on that window or outside of it, the window closes.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Unfortunately there isn't anything you can do natively within RoboHelp to influence this. Anything you do will require either manual editing or some search and replace trickery.

RoboHelp 8 does offer a scripting capability. Unfortunately, unless we have a propeller head among us that has really played with this aspect, only the Adobe engineers are able to whip up a script to allow such things.

You may wish to locate a good Search and Replace utility such as FAR or ReplacEm. Then you could use Search and replace to convert the Expanding hotspots to perhaps simple HTML using the Acronym tag.

• Click here to visit the FAR page
• Click here to visit the ReplacEm page

The acronym tag looks like this:

<acronym title="Tooltip text presented to user goes here">Text the user mouses over to see tooltip goes here</acronym>

You may also be interested in a JavaScript solution called OverLib.

Click here to visit the OverLib site

Cheers... Rick

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