How do i turn off the hovering text that appears over a scripted object?

[Jordan Morgenrote]

Does anyone know how to turn off (if it is at all possible) the hovering text that appears over a scripted object?

Thanks in advance.

[Farrah Foss]

Ohhhh - goto View menu and turn off Hover Tips

[Wot Bing]

Ctrl Shift t will remove the text you're referring to on your screen.  Your screen only.  Good luck! 

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Hi Jordan!

If it's a scripted vendor, you click the vendor to get the menu and disable hover text.

If it's an object with a simple hover text script in its Contents tab you would think you could just right click/edit then open the Contents tab and delete it. Unfortunately, that still leaves the hover text visible. Hover or floating text is a prim property and not dependent on a script for its continued existence.

What you should do is open the contents tab then open the hover text script and delete all the hover text wording between the inverted commas but leave the inverted commas alone. Then your text will disappear as there is no text left to display. In other words you may have "click here for landmark" as hover text. After deleting the words you just have "".

There is also another script you can place in the contents tab if you go the delete route which nullifies the remaining hover text. I think I have it somewhere but not online at the moment. However the method I suggested above will work.

Nyll

[Jordan Morgenrote]

No, you misunderstand, i don't mean HOVERTEXT -- I mean the white box of text you get when you hover your pointer over a scripted object. It tells you the creator, item name, stuff like that... Maybe its only an emerald viewer thing?

[Farrah Foss]

If you have modify permission, and there is a script in the prim that does not do anything else like, like sit, just delete it, then jump to the Script part below. Most often ppl name hover text scripts, hover_text, floating text or something similar. Look for that if there are multiple scripts. Remember in a multiprim object (link set) the text script may not be in the root prim, it may be in a daughter prim so it ends up above the object.

-------- Script Part -----------

Create, either in your inventory and drag into the object or use the New Script button, a script called Kill Text. In that script put the following:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {

        llSetText("", <1,1,1>, 1.5);
      
    }
}

Thats it. The little script will kill your hover text.

[Jordan Morgenrote]

I'm gonna reedit the question because i don't mean HOVERTEXT. I know what that is, and how to kill that... this is a generated white box of text that appears - for instance on a game or other scripted object - when the POINTER hovers over it.

 

Thanks for trying, though...

[Jordan Morgenrote]

Nope, not hovertips either (I tried that, it didn't work)...

I've attached a jpg of what i mean...

[Nyll Bergbahn]

ohhh hover tips..Farrah just gave you the answer.

Nyll

[Jordan Morgenrote]

No, i don't mean the hovertips...

 

Attached is a small jpeg of what i mean...

[Boroondas Gupte]

From the look of it, I'm almost sure that what can be seen on your screenshot is a (viewer 1.x-style) hover tip. Have you tried with Snowglobe or with the official client? Maybe Emerald has a bug so that some objects' tips are displayed regardless of the settings ...

[Dick Spad]

Jordan ... has you checked out the SL wiki? here's the url to the question you asked ... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Hover_tips

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Jordan, that's a hover tip. Just make sure there is no X against Show Hover Tips in the View menu. Ctrl+Shift+T is just a shortcut to manually doing it via the View menu.

I see you have marked the question answered so is it now solved?

Nyll

[Christina Halpin]

I have the same question as the OP. I assume from these answers that  there is no way to eliminate text from appearing when the cursor is held over an object? Even though everyone seems to be able to do that? This page shows up on Google, so it would be useful to have an answer here.

[Lindal Kidd]

@Christina Halpin, have you tried turning off Hovertips in your preferences, as suggested above?

[Mollymews]

7 hours ago, Christina Halpin said:

I have the same question as the OP. I assume from these answers that  there is no way to eliminate text from appearing when the cursor is held over an object? Even though everyone seems to be able to do that? This page shows up on Google, so it would be useful to have an answer here.

Linden Viewer: Debug Settings \ ShowHoverTips = False

Edited June 15, 2022 by Mollymews
linden

[Christina Halpin]

thank you. Yes, turning off hovertips worked for me, but I basically have a gallery and don't want other people seeing the hovertip.

My menu suggested the possibility that at the default option, some objects would not show hovertips.

[Rowan Amore]

1 hour ago, Christina Halpin said:

thank you. Yes, turning off hovertips worked for me, but I basically have a gallery and don't want other people seeing the hovertip.

My menu suggested the possibility that at the default option, some objects would not show hovertips.

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/New_Hover_Tip_default_behavior

[Rolig Loon]

The hovertip settings are an option in your viewer, so each person may elect to see (or not see) them.  I doubt that there is a way to override them to force a choice on visitors to your area, but I may be wrong.

[Christina Halpin]

thanks I think that clarified -- the default is for hovertips on anything  that can interact. That's going to be my pictures. Sigh.

[Rowan Amore]

If it's any consolation, most people I know have them shut off.  I know I do.