Hi.I have a problem. I need to create widget that do the following
When the mouse moves over text pop up window appear, looks like baloon or tooltip
Information in this window should be from document in another notes database.
I want to know is it posible with Lotus Notes Widgets or I have to use Lotus C API for this.
Maybe this can already be done, and if you can outline the steps, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Subject: question and a possible answer
“1. When the mouse moves over text…” <= what type of text are you talking about? Does it appear in a document, in a view, etc.?
If you’re talking about some text in a rich-text field, you can probably achieve this by creating an action pop-up. However, this wouldn’t be dynamic, i.e. you would have to specify the document and text selection where you want the pop-up to appear upfront.
Subject: Lotus widget
Widget technology let us only to open a view and perform full text search in this view. And this view will be opened in new window,side bar panel or new tab. But i need to open not a view, I need to find and open some document. Search condition should include text that user select in his document. And I need to open search result (whole document or it’s part) in pop-up window(like a hint).
For example, user opens mail docment. And in text of message he select some name, click on it and pop-up window(hint) appear with information about this person. This information should be taken, for example, from the names.nsf.
Subject: how about composite apps?
You could create a text recognizor and then wire that in a composite application to an action. The action could use LotusScript to find the document you want and display it. The only missing part I don’t know without experimenting is how you would get the actual text that was recognized to be surfaced as a property. That might be in 8.5, you have to look.
Howard