Flash Panorama Player - hanging tooltips

By Jez
Published on October 24th, 2008
2 Comments

Using the zephry’s excellent Extensible tooltips plugin and also FPP’s tooltip plug-in, there seems to be an issue where the non-static hotpot tooltips will sometimes hang and carry over into the next pano. The only solution I could find was to was turn off the visibility of the non-static hotspots onTransitionEnd, and turn the visibilty back on again onNewPano, so:

onNewPano="
nonstatic_hotpot_1.visibility=0;
nonstatic_hotpot_2.visibility=0;
nonstatic_hotpot_3.visibility=0;
etc...
"
onTransitionEnd="
nonstatic_hotpot_1.visibility=1;
nonstatic_hotpot_2.visibility=1;
nonstatic_hotpot_3.visibility=1;
etc...
"

Obviously a bit of a pain if there are a shedload of hotspots, but it works.

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2 Responses to “Flash Panorama Player - hanging tooltips”

  1. Mark Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Can’t you make a loop that changes each value based on the count of each one on ‘onTransitionEnd’, therefore clearing each existing object? Can you hold each hotspot within an array?

  2. Jez Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    The plug-ins are pre-compiled .swf’s with the required parameters being set by via XML, so no, this couldn’t be done.