Bug 194930

Summary:	[JFace][ToolTip] Provide support for SWT.BALLON styled widgets
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Irum Godil <softwarengineer2004>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.muskalla, eclipse, tom.schindl
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Irum Godil

2007-06-29 11:51:09 EDT

The org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tooltip provides very little capability for tooltips styles. For instance there is no support for changing colors or fonts. 

Please see the email threads below for this feature request: 
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Irum Godil schrieb:

Hi,
I am using the org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tooltip class to show tooltips in various places. However, I am noticing that this class provides very limited custom functionality.
For instance, I would like to set a different background color on the tooltip, or list items in a bullet form.

 From the newsgroup postings I have seen that I can create a StyledText control inside my own shell, however the problem there is that I am unable to show my tooltip as a balloon. I cannot find any control that I could set as a balloon style and set my custom fonts/colors on.
Can somebody please help me with this. What is the best solution for this?

Thanks.
Regards,
Irum G.
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Response from Tom Schindl:


Well, JFace provides a base class to create really fancy tooltips although til now nobody has implement a ballon feature.

I think this is done using Shell#setRegion() or something like that. So an implementation doesn't sound to hard (in fact you can maybe copy the algorithm from the SWT-Tooltip)

Maybe we could support this Ballon-Style in 3.4 out of the box. Would you mind filing a bug and CC'ing me?

Tom

Comment 1 Thomas Schindl

2008-01-18 17:49:15 EST

any volunteers?

Comment 2 Thomas Schindl

2010-01-28 17:10:52 EST

multi change because of intenion of stepping back as platform-ui committer

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:16:01 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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