info card for button hover [HELP]

[beastcarving]

Does anyone know how to add little cards when hovering over a button? I've got some feedback about my menus, and I'd like if an info card could give a definition of each button. For example, this is my load/save menu and those light bulbs are previous and advance buttons. I'd like for the card to say next and previous when hovered over.



this is what my menu looks like now:;

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    imagemap:
        ground "blank.png"
        idle "lb2.png"
        hover "lb1.png"

        cache False
        alpha False


        hotspot (1223,1,175,315) clicked FilePageNext(20)  activate_sound "clack.mp3" hover_sound "clink.mp3"
        hotspot (1,2,202,315) clicked FilePagePrevious(1)  activate_sound "clack.mp3" hover_sound "clink.mp3"

[namastaii]

You could add the card art to your imagemap idle image and place the hotspot under an if statement with a null action (action NullAction())
have a screen variable that you change with hovering over the hotspots
something like this? (untested)

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    default next_card = False
    default previous_card = False
    imagemap:
        ground "blank.png"
        idle "lb2.png"
        hover "lb1.png"

        cache False
        alpha False


        hotspot (1223,1,175,315) clicked FilePageNext(20)  hovered SetScreenVariable("next_card", True) unhovered SetScreenVariable("next_card", False) activate_sound "clack.mp3" hover_sound "clink.mp3"
        hotspot (1,2,202,315) clicked FilePagePrevious(1)  hovered SetScreenVariable("previous_card", True) unhovered SetScreenVariable("previous", False)   activate_sound "clack.mp3" hover_sound "clink.mp3"

        if next_card:
            hotspot (the correct hotspots here) action NullAction()
        if previous_card:
            hotspot (etc) action NullAction()

You don't have to put it on your imagemap image directly either, you could also put text or an image/imagebutton under the if statements as well.