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catching events on tooltips

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shraddha - 24 Feb 2005 17:35 GMT
Hi

I want to implement dynamic interactive tooltips in java so that the
user can expand / collapse them. Also, if there are hyperlinks in the
tooltip text, the user should be able to follow up this link. For the
same purpose, I need to be able to catch any events associated with
tooltips.

I tried to search a lot on how to customize the behavior of tooltips in
Java, however couldn't find any useful information. Does anyone know
about how to proceed about this? Any suggestions / pointers would be
greatly appreicated.

Thanks,
Shraddha
Karsten Baumgarten - 24 Feb 2005 22:51 GMT
> Hi
>
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> Thanks,
> Shraddha

I don't know if you can change the behaviour of the tooltips that are
created by Swing (or AWT, SWT). My suggestion would be to set up
listeners that catch the mouseEntered event for components. In the
listeners create a frameless window containing the tooltip text. Write a
class for such a window that is capable of everything you need (HTML,
respond to mouse clicks, etc.).

Regards,
Karsten

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Regards,
Karsten



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