Bug 88866

Summary:	[Widgets] Link widget: should support tooltips on links
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tom Hofmann <eclipse>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bradleyjames, daniel_megert, ericwill, remy.suen, steve_northover
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	94921

Description Tom Hofmann

2005-03-23 10:02:36 EST

(I thought there already was a bug report, but guess not)

N20050323

The syntax for the swt Link widget should allow to specify an ALT or TITLE
attribute that would be displayed as tooltip when hovering over a link.
Currently, the tooltip can only be set on the entire widget.

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2005-03-23 15:55:05 EST

Here again our Link widget API is limited by the (WinXP) SysLink API, which 
only supports the attributes HREF and ID. See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/shellcc/platform/commctls/syslink/syslinkovrvw.asp

It might be possible to emulated it using SysLink hit-test to detect over 
which link the mouse is over during the mouse hover.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2005-05-12 07:31:28 EDT

Any chance we can do something here for 3.1? Otherwise I tend to remove the
hovers because:
- hover is shown/activated when mouse is over any text not just the link
- it's hard to provide a hover if there's more than one link

Comment 3 Steve Northover

2005-05-12 18:14:47 EDT

I don't think so.  To dangerous to change code right now.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2005-05-13 03:18:20 EDT

That's what we thought as well and hence already removed the hovers for the
I20050512-1600 build ;-)

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2007-05-21 08:31:34 EDT

>- hover is shown/activated when mouse is over any text not just the link
This got fixed.

Comment 6 Felipe Heidrich

2009-08-19 08:43:16 EDT

Your bug has been moved to triage, visit http://www.eclipse.org/swt/triage.php for more info.

Comment 7 Eric Williams

2017-07-28 10:23:19 EDT

Patches are welcome.