[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: HTML Tooltips?

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The question is how much of HTML-Subset you need. You could also open a 
StyledText-Widget in the custom tooltip or a Canvas where you draw 
everything yourself. Fake tooltips are part of JFace 3.3.

Tom

Stuart Pond schrieb:
> Swing has the capability to display HTML tooltips. How do I accomplish this 
> in SWT?
>
> I know SWT tooltips are native and there might not support HTML.  So I would 
> have to create fake tooltips.  I found one suggestion to put a browser 
> control into a fake tooltip.  That seems extremely heavy handed and resource 
> intensive to do that.  Is there any other alternative to get marked up 
> Tooltips? 


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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