Bug 88866 - [Widgets] Link widget: should support tooltips on links
Summary: [Widgets] Link widget: should support tooltips on links
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-GTK
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Blocks: 94921
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Reported: 2005-03-23 10:02 EST by Tom Hofmann CLA
Modified: 2017-07-28 10:23 EDT (History)
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Description Tom Hofmann CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2005-05-12 18:14:47 EDT 
I don't think so.  To dangerous to change code right now.
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2017-07-28 10:23:19 EDT 
Patches are welcome.