Customize Rollover Tooltips (Concept)

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Customize Rollover Tooltips

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Rollover tooltips display the current values of selected properties.

The properties and values that are displayed in a rollover tooltip can be customized by object type. When customizing the display of the properties for a rollover tooltip, you can display properties common to all object types or properties that are specific to an object type. The available properties are the same as those on the Properties palette and for Quick Properties.

Rollover tooltips are only displayed for objects when the ROLLOVERTIPS system variable is set to 1. See Set Interface Options in the User’s Guide for more information about controlling the display of rollover tooltips and other tooltip settings for the program.

When customizing rollover tooltips, you control which object types display a tooltip when the cursor hovers over an object in the drawing window. You use the Objects pane to add and remove the object types for which you want to see a rollover tooltip. Once an object type is listed in the Objects pane, you can then specify which properties in the Properties pane to display on a rollover tooltip for the selected object type.

You can change the general properties for a selected object type or for all object types. Selecting an object type from the Objects pane allows you to control the display of the general properties for that selected object type, or you can click the General button at the bottom of the Objects pane to override the general properties of all object types. When the General button at the bottom of the Objects pane is clicked, a list of the general properties that can be used to override the properties of all individual object type is displayed along with the Reset Overrides button. Select the general properties that you want displayed for all object types and click Reset Overrides.

When an object is added to the list on the Objects pane, the checked general properties will be automatically checked in the property list for that object type. For example, if the properties Color and Layer are checked under the General properties, the same checked properties are assigned to the object that is being added to the Object list.