Right justifying Arabic tooltips

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Swetha - 02 Feb 2006 13:13 GMT

Hello

I am trying to create tooltips in Arabic. Though the Arabic characters
are displayed correctly and they read from right to left, I am not able
to set the alignment for the tooltip as right justified. Hence, the
right-to-left Arabic text is left justified and this looks weird. Does
anyone have any ideas how I can solve this?

Regards
Swetha

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Swetha - 02 Feb 2006 13:35 GMT

Back with one of the solutions this time : I just included <p
align="right"> to the text and this works.

Swetha

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Roedy Green - 02 Feb 2006 20:16 GMT

> I just included <p
>align="right"> to the text and this works.

you mean like embedded HTML?

Did you have add anything else or do anything to tell it this was HTML
not simple text?

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Roedy Green - 02 Feb 2006 19:53 GMT

>I am trying to create tooltips in Arabic. Though the Arabic characters
>are displayed correctly and they read from right to left, I am not able
>to set the alignment for the tooltip as right justified. Hence, the
>right-to-left Arabic text is left justified and this looks weird. Does
>anyone have any ideas how I can solve this?

Don't tooltips shrink to fit?
Are you doing multiline tooltips?

Or do you mean how the tooltip
aligns with where the mouse is?

In my own experments I discovered
the right to leftness was
triggered simply by the
presence of Hebrew/Arabic characters.

The alignment was up to you.

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Swetha - 05 Feb 2006 15:25 GMT

Roedy

Well, the right to left of the text is triggered just by the presence
of Arabic characters, but the alignement(righ/left-justify) is not.
Hence you have to explicitly specify the alignment, if the tooltips are
multiline, or else you have right-to-left Arabic text which is by
default aligned to the left.

Ans about the embedded HTML, I just added "<html><p align = "right"> to
the beginning of the string. So the code finally was something like:

label1.setToolTip("<html><p align = \"right\">Click here for more
info");

Swetha

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