TIP STRIP TRIGGER OFFSET

[Jim@BMC]

I've just added tip strips to my front panel controls and at first they were working fine.  After adding the VI to a project (probably unrelated) the "sweet spot" which activates the tip strip is randomly offset from the associated control.  None are directly over the associated control.  They also seem difficult to trigger, but maybe I'm not holding the cursor in the sweet spot long enough.  Any suggestions?

Regards All, and thanks in advance.

[MehakD]

How much is the offset for the 'sweet spot' for you? Is this offset the same for all controls and idicators? Also, the tip strip would only appear once the cursor changes to the operate value tool. You may want to select the operate value tool from the toolbar(goto View>>toolbar) and scroll over the control/indicator. The tip strip only appears once the pointer has been stationary for almost a second or two over the control in question.

Also, would it be possible for you to put up the VI so that I can look at the unexpected behavior that you maybe seeing?

[Jim@BMC]

The offset was random and different for every control, some above, some below, some left, some right.  It was present when stopped with the operate control, when running with the cursor and also in a compiled application built in project.  The next day, obviously with a new clean startup of LabView, everything works fine.  I re-built the application and the compiled version works fine.  Something must have gone wrong internally to LabView during the session where the problem original;ly manifested.  Thank you for your response though.

Regards,

Jim

[falkpl]

I have seen this happen in the past with tipstrips and also tabs.  It seemed to be a corrupted vi and when I rolled back the changes it went away.  I never figured out what went wrong.