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

["Stuart Pond" <Stuart.Pond@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the suggestion to use StyleText, but that will not work for 
us.  We are placing some existing Swing based controls that have HTML 
tooltips already defined with SWT controls.

"Carolyn MacLeod" <Carolyn_MacLeod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Note that StyledText won't do HTML (not sure if that was clear in Tom's 
> answer <g>), however you can use it to display text that is formatted with 
> color and font changes, underlines, etc.
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> Carolyn
>
> "Tom Schindl" <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> 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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