I know this is a silly question...

[Shadowmistress]

...but you know how when you hover over a thread and a popup window displays the first part of the message? Is there any way to get it to stay open longer instead of closing withing 5 seconds? Awfully hard to read paragraphs that fast, and I'd like it to stay open as long as I'm hovering over it. Anyone know how to fix this?

[Capmaster]

Start a thread in the feedback forum. Baldrick is pretty good about answering those

[Shadowmistress]

How bout if one of the mods just moves this one there tomorrow if no answers are found?

[Capmaster]

How bout if one of the mods just moves this one there tomorrow if no answers are found?

You probably won't get any answers in this forum. I can move it now if you like ...

[Shadowmistress]

Up to you.

[Capmaster]

The only person who can change it is Baldrick, and his main hangout is the feedback forum. All you'll get here is "Me too" answers and the like. Moving - hold on to something .......

[MrMoody]

It stays open on my machine as long as you don't move the mouse. Win XP Pro SP2, IE 6.0.

[Shadowmistress]

I'm on Windows 98 SE

[Baldrick]

Nope, can't fix it. It is a windows tool tip and I can't change the timeouts. I have tried making it as a javascript but it is way tooo buggy. Try hover you mouse over the H(istory) on the front page under the Latest toools...it is a javascript...and they sometime never dissapears and other strange bugs so I don't want too many of those.

[Shadowmistress]

Is there anything I can do on my end by changing browser settings or such?

(Nothing pops up when I hover over the H. Nothing happens at all. I can't even click on it.)

[Goober57]

Maybe TweakUI or X-Setup might have a mouse setting change.

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[Goober57]

Is there anything I can do on my end by changing browser settings or such?

(Nothing pops up when I hover over the H. Nothing happens at all. I can't even click on it.)

Hover over the H in the columns.

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[Shadowmistress]

Are those separate programs or within windows? How do I get at them?

[Goober57]

http://www.x-setup.net/product/home.asp?lang=EN

[Goober57]

http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?qu=tweakui&View=en-us

[Goober57]

I have XSetup but I only use it for XMouse.

I can't find a setting that might help you.
EDIT.....but I have it set up for Windows 2000.

Not sure about TweakUI.

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[tekkieman]

Nope, can't fix it. It is a windows tool tip and I can't change the timeouts.

How does the tooltip get implemented on your end? When I implement a tooltip in my applications, I have to set the timeout. Web stuff is not my specialty, but I assume it's based on a client side setting.

Sometimes if I don't move the mouse it will stay, other times, it disappears.

Time for some research.

[Shadowmistress]

I've installed some programs too where you can set the timeout setting also. I just didn't know how to get to it for this place. If I have to go do surgery to the windows guts I don't think it's worth the bother. That x-setup thing looks cool. I may mess around with that for a while.

[Baldrick]

Is there anything I can do on my end by changing browser settings or such?

(Nothing pops up when I hover over the H. Nothing happens at all. I can't even click on it.)

The H in the list...not the one at the top of the latest tool list. You must have javascript enabled.

[Baldrick]

Nope, can't fix it. It is a windows tool tip and I can't change the timeouts.

How does the tooltip get implemented on your end? When I implement a tooltip in my applications, I have to set the timeout. Web stuff is not my specialty, but I assume it's based on a client side setting.

Sometimes if I don't move the mouse it will stay, other times, it disappears.

Time for some research.

alskds in the html code. It doesn't work on all browsers though.

[Shadowmistress]

@baldrick: Woops, silly me.
Hovering over the H gives me 15 seconds of box
Hovering over a thread gives me 5 seconds of box, some threads only 3 seconds.
Oh well, it wasn't that important anyway.

[Goober57]

That x-setup thing looks cool. I may mess around with that for a while.

But be careful.

It's been a while since I installed it so read the instructions.

Seems like there were some warnings.
(might totally mess up your settings)

Like I said, I'm only using XMouse!

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[Edmund Blackadder]

...but you know how when you hover over a thread and a popup window displays the first part of the message? Is there any way to get it to stay open longer instead of closing withing 5 seconds?

I'm still often using Windows 98SE while reading posts on Videohelp.com. The only slightly annoying solution I've found to make the popups stay as long as you like is to keep horizontally moving your mouse slightly over the link. What I mean is once you see the pointing finger instead of an arrow pointer, simply move it within a few pixels space horizontally from side to side.

This is of course a very lame solution and it's easy to accidentally shift the mouse up or down, but it works for me, since there's no other way around.

[tekkieman]

Alright. On the home computer, the tooltips stay up until the mouse is moved. The work system, they disappear after 5 seconds.

The only difference between the two is that the home system has SP2, work SP1.

EDIT: Both run IE 6.x (I'll get the exact version from work on Tuesday, home is 6.0.2900)

[northcat_8]

Shadowmistress~

I see huukt on fonix didn't werk four you? How schlow do you reed?

You know they aren't written in braile don't you?

I'm just messin with you, I just move the mouse around a little and it stays up.

[tekkieman]

I just move the mouse around a little and it stays up.

Too easy! I'm letting this one slide. Perhaps Shadowmistress will take advantage of the opening.....

[Shadowmistress]

It's not in brail!?! Really??? I was wondering why my screen was so smooth. Maybe I should pm Baldrick and have him fix it for me?

Hukt on faniks wos 2 hrd fore me nd I haad tooo quiiit. I'm heppilee enrolld in rednek remeedial reedeeng shcool at hte momnt nd R doeeng jus fieene htank yoo.

You mean all I had to do was fiddle with my mouse to keep it up? My pussycat will get lonely.



I may be blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

[NamPla]

Watch out yer pussy don't eat that mouse!

[Capmaster]

You mean all I had to do was fiddle with my mouse to keep it up? My pussycat will get lonely

Nobody wants that

[Edmund Blackadder]

How quickly this became an Off-Topic type of "discussion". All we have here is a handful of the same OTPW people come to normal forums and continuing their useless babble between themselves. And I guess my lame solution to the original problem wasn't good enough...

P.S.: This thread is not the worst example, but it does show a general trend of crapping On-Topic threads with all kinds of non-related trash, while completely ignoring the posts that actually in some way contribute to the solution of the problem (even if it's not the best solution).

P.P.S.: And if I get a warning for this post, I'll know for sure that the system is corrupt.