# Preventing tooltips when clicking control buttons
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126
**Category:** Dev/API Corner
**Tags:** plugin-dev
**Created:** [March 4, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126 "2009-03-04T22:26:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@umciggy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/umciggy)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/1 "2009-03-04T22:26:33Z")
I have another problem with the plugin we’re working on for the site [http://svtplay.se](http://svtplay.se).
I have specified a location to click for pause/play, and indeed Plex pauses/resumes the video
just fine when I hit “space” during playback. After a few seconds however a tooltip appears in
lower part of the video. It seems as if the pointer is hovering above the button after clicking
it, causing the tooltip to appear .
I have tried the following as a workaround, with no success:
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Any suggestions on how to resolve this? The same problem appears when skipping in the video using up/down arrows,
so some kind of fix for the seekbar bar is needed as well.
Here is a sample URL if you want to create a strm file to reproduce the problem:
[http://svtplay.se/t/102879/musikministeriet](http://svtplay.se/t/102879/musikministeriet)
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### Author:  [@atrus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/atrus)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/2 "2009-03-06T08:46:25Z")
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Im bumping this as this poses a problem in our plug...
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### Author:  [@atrus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/atrus)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/3 "2009-03-09T12:15:04Z")
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> Im bumping this as this poses a problem in our plug…
Does anyone know if the values we use for "move" is absolute positions or if it's actual pixels that the "mouse" should move?
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/4 "2009-03-11T08:13:26Z")
Interesting, the mouse stuff needs a bit of work for sure. I was going to suggest as a workaround clicking on the pause button, and then clicking elsewhere, but it looks like you’ve already done this.
All the coordinates are in absolute positions.
The only other thing I might suggest is using the pause command to see if clicking on the pause button, pausing, and then clicking elsewhere might help. The pause time is in milliseconds.
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/5 "2009-03-11T08:17:29Z")
Actually, how the #%#% did you guys lock onto that SWF??? Scott and I were just looking at it tonight. The web designer is a bit of a drunken monkey, apparently.
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### Author:  [@umciggy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/umciggy)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/6 "2009-03-11T08:52:21Z")
Hahaha, seems like we’ve stumbled upon one nasty piece of SWF here.
If you happen to be swedish, the svtplay site is pretty damn sweet though. Lots of good content.
I’ve actually tried the pause thing as well … I think. Will give it another go tonight to be 100% sure.
We also need some way to prevent the tooltips when plex is skipping by clicking the seekbar.
Do you have any idea on how that can be done?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/preventing-tooltips-when-clicking-control-buttons/1126/7 "2019-12-20T20:23:09Z")
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