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Can a Handout be used like a Tooltip?

When a player mouse overs a token the Tooltip it shows whatever is entered (Up to 150 characters). Is there a way to set the Tooltip to show a Handout? And if there is, can this handout be set to let whichever player mouse overed the token see it rather than everyone? I hope I'm asking this clearly. My simple intention is to get  Tooltip with more then 150 characters as this is very limiting to me. I have asked about using TokenMod to increase this limit. While it seems possible to do, the best I have been able to accomplish myself is the Tooltip displays only the first word of what I would like it to say.
A tooltip has a maximum of 150 characters, unless it is set by a Mod script. If you are using TokenMod and only a single word is being inputted into the tooltip, try putting quotation marks around the text you want to put into the tooltip   With a Mod script, you could have it automatically “track” a handout and anytime a change is made to that handout, those changes would be updated onto the tooltip, but the formatting of the tooltip can’t be adjusted to make it look like a handout, or to simply visually show the handout itself. I’m not aware of any script that natively does this, so it would likely require a new custom script.   Tooltips only have a toggled on/off setting to be shown or not. If they are set to be shown, then they are visible for all players. There’s not currently any way to change this. 
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
The tooltip display is also not possible to change: width is consistent, no formatting (bold, etc.) is available on characters, and it doesn't handle line breaks. If you have been fortunate enough to see any of the surveys that occasionally pop up on Roll20, there were a couple that featured map pins that were fairly promising. You can also look into the Supernotes mod script, which lets players select a token and send its token notes to chat. Token notes do allow for formatting and images.
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Gold
Forum Champion
I wish we could, do this, particularly for Cards. This would be a great way to have Text of all the card-text, instead of having it be just an image of text on Cards.
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Andrew R.
Pro
Sheet Author
Here’s my example of how to use TokenMod to set a tooltip, posted several times recently.  !token-mod {{      --set          tooltip|"venenatis tellus in metus vulputate eu scelerisque felis imperdiet proin fermentum leo vel orci porta non pulvinar neque laoreet suspendisse interdum consectetur libero id faucibus nisl tincidunt eget nullam non nisi est sit amet facilisis magna etiam tempor orci eu lobortis elementum nibh tellus molestie nunc non blandit massa enim nec dui nunc mattis enim ut tellus elementum sagittis vitae et leo duis ut diam quam nulla porttitor massa id neque aliquam vestibulum morbi blandit cursus risus at ultrices mi tempus imperdiet nulla malesuada pellentesque elit eget gravida cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus"      --on          show_tooltip  }} 
Andrew R, your example is exactly what I tried using with TokenMod and it would only show the first word. I've tried copy/paste your entry and typing it by hand... Still the same results. It displays just the first word of whatever is within the quotations. Keithcurtis, thank you. I'll check out Supernotes to see if it can do what I'm looking for.