[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Tooltip on TreeView leaves

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is part of JFace 3.3 and you can use my backport of JFace-Viewers
if you need it now and/or find your own path ;-)


http://tom-eclipse-dev.blogspot.com/
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jface.snippets/Eclipse%20JFace%20Snippets/org/eclipse/jface/snippets/viewers/Snippet011CustomTooltips.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=83200
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=163274

Tom


Werner Janjic schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Nobody an idea on this? Even a "no this is not possible" would already
> help ;-)
> 
> Thx!
> 
> Werner Janjic schrieb:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I've implemented a data tree view for a plugin I am developing. After
>> hours of searching, I've still not found an opportunity to show tool-tip
>> information on the tree's parent or leave objects.
>>
>> There is no TreeParent.setToolTip("abc") or TreeObject.setToolTip("abc")
>> method to be found.
>>
>> I saw some workaround for tables but I wasn't able to transfer them to
>> Treeviews.
>>
>> Is it somehow possible to have a tool-tip shown up when I stop with the
>> mouse over a TreeView leave? Perhaps over an ActionListener which I am
>> quite new to.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help. Here my code for the initialization:
>>
>> ---- schnipp ----
>>
>> private void initialize() {
>>  if (resultMap != null) {
>>   TreeParent root = new TreeParent(searchString);
>> 				
>>   Iterator it = resultMap.keySet().iterator();
>>   while (it.hasNext()) {
>>   String link = (String)it.next();
>>   System.out.println("- " + link);
>>   TreeParent par = new TreeParent(link);
>>   Vector leaves = (Vector)resultMap.get(link);
>>   Iterator leaveIt = leaves.iterator();
>>   while (leaveIt.hasNext()) {
>>    TreeObject to = new TreeObject((String)leaveIt.next());
>>    par.addChild(to);
>>   }
>>   root.addChild(par);
>>  }
>> 				
>>  if (invisibleRoot == null)
>>   invisibleRoot = new TreeParent("");
>> 				
>>   invisibleRoot.setParent(root);
>>   invisibleRoot.addChild(root);
>>  } else {
>>   // if you want to show something although there are no results
>>   // implement it here!
>>  }
>> }
>>
>>
>> ---- schnapp ----