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	Replies: 5 - Last Post: Aug 30, 2008 4:10 PM by: fred34

cozmint

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ToolTip
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 2:04 AM

Hi,

What would be the best way to implement a tooltip for some components? I'm looking to display for 2 seconds a tip above the component when the user selects it. Modeless dialog, glasspane or something else?

Thanks

chen

Re: ToolTip
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 5:39 AM

in response to: cozmint

Hi,
The best way would be to use glasspane.

Regards,
Chen

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aberrant

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Re: ToolTip
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 7:24 AM

in response to: cozmint

Or you could try JXLayer : https://jxlayer.dev.java.net/

If for some reason you are unable to use a 3rd party library you might try something like this: http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/RootPaneDemo It wraps any component and gives it it's own private glasspane. JXlayer is far more advanced though, so if you can I'd recommend using that.

Good luck.

fred34

Posts: 128

Re: ToolTip
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 3:22 PM

in response to: cozmint

I'm going to have to ask the obvious question here...what's wrong with the default implementation of JToolTip and the methods in JComponent? They provide precisely the behaviour you're asking for.

cozmint

Posts: 50

Re: ToolTip
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 3:55 PM

in response to: fred34

Let's try not to mix LWUIT with Swing.

fred34

Posts: 128

Re: ToolTip
Posted: Aug 30, 2008 4:10 PM

in response to: cozmint

oops, I read the post above and mine and forgot check which forum this was.

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