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

[Hongying Zhang <hongying.zhang@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Grant,
I followed your instructions and the samples you mentioned above to set 
a tooltip into a browser. However, my browser came out is very small 
with both horizontal and vertical scroll bars.

Here is the code I setup browser:
    Browser browser ;
    Shell shell = new Shell (item.getShell(), SWT.ON_TOP | SWT.NO_FOCUS
            | SWT.TOOL);
    FillLayout layout = new FillLayout ();
    shell.setLayout (layout);
    try
    {
        browser = new Browser( shell, SWT.NONE );
    }
    catch(SWTError err)
    {
      System.out.println(err.getMessage);
    }
    browser.setText( htmltext );

    Point size = shell.computeSize( SWT.DEFAULT, SWT.DEFAULT);
    Point pt = item.toDisplay (event.x, event.y);
    shell.setBounds (pt.x, pt.y, size.x, size.y);
    shell.setVisible (true);

If I use shell.getSize() to replace shell.computeSize( SWT.DEFAULT, 
SWT.DEFAULT), that will make the tooltip came up too big. Can you please 
give me some hint of how I can make my browser to the right size that 
can hold the tooltip?

Thanks a lot!
Hongying Zhang


Grant Gayed wrote:
> Putting a Browser in a fake tooltip is not such a big deal.  Eclipse's
> tooltips in (at least) JDT do this by creating an instance up-front and
> hiding/showing it whenever needed.
>
> Grant
>
>
> "Stuart Pond" <Stuart.Pond@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fr75fu$o04$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thank you for the suggestion to use StyleText, but that will not work for
> > us.  We are placing some existing Swing based controls that have HTML
> > tooltips already defined with SWT controls.
> >
> > "Carolyn MacLeod" <Carolyn_MacLeod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:fr6e8j$k4t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Note that StyledText won't do HTML (not sure if that was clear in Tom's
> > > answer <g>), however you can use it to display text that is formatted
> with
> > > color and font changes, underlines, etc.
> > >
> > > Carolyn
> > >
> > > "Tom Schindl" <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:fr6d40$i1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 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?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > B e s t S o l u t i o n . at
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> > > > Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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