The tooltip allows you to show a floating "tooltip" on any
view. To use it you make it a child of a view. The parent view has
to be clickable for the tooltip to work. Setting clickable to false
will disable the tooltip.
Example 62. Tooltip
<canvas height="60" layout="axis:y; spacing: 10">
<text>Mouse over the button to see the tip</text>
<button text="Button, button">
<tooltip>Click or mouse out to hide tip</tooltip>
</button>
</canvas>
You can subclass tooltip and override
the update method to create dynamic tooltips
Example 63. Dynamic Tooltip
<canvas height="180">
<class name="timetip" extends="tooltip" with="formatter">
<attribute name="formats" value="{us: '%2$d/%3$d/%1$d %4$02d:%02d:%02d', eu: '%1$4d-%2$02d-%3$02d %4$02d:%02d:%02d'}"/>
<method name="update">
var now = new Date;
this.setAttribute('text',
this.formatToString(
this.formats[locale.text],
now.getFullYear(),
now.getMonth(),
now.getDay(),
now.getHours(),
now.getMinutes(),
now.getSeconds()));
</method>
</class>
<stylesheet>
boxmodel { padding: 10 }
tooltip { content: "Traditional tooltip" }
</stylesheet>
<view layout="axis:y; spacing: 25" with="boxmodel">
<view layout="axis: x; spacing: 20">
<button id="locale" onclick="this.setAttribute('text', this.text == 'us' ? 'eu' : 'us')">us</button>
<text multiline="true" width="250">
Click on the eu/us button to change locale. Hover over the blue box to see a locale-dependent tooltip
</text>
</view>
<view layout="axis: x; spacing: 20">
<view width="75" height="75" bgcolor="blue" clickable="true">
<timetip/>
<text fgcolor="white" valign="middle" align="center">Dynamic</text>
</view>
<view width="75" height="75" bgcolor="lime" clickable="true">
<tooltip/>
<text fgcolor="white" valign="middle" align="center">Static</text>
</view>
</view>
</view>
</canvas>
The appearance of the tooltip is determined by the canvas.tooltipview element
| Name (CSS property) | Type (tag) | Type (js) | Default | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
text
|
text | String | read/write | |
| content | The text that will be displayed by the tooltip. If the text
is null or empty, no tooltip will be displayed.
You can use the CSS property content to set the
text of a tooltip from a stylesheet
|
|||
tipalign
|
right | left | String | left | read/write |
| Whether the tooltip is horizontally aligned by it's left edge (default) or right edge relative to the mouse position. | ||||
tipvalign
|
above | below | default | String | default | read/write |
| Whether the tooltip shows up above or below the mouse position. Default will position heuristically to keep the tooltip visible on the canvas. | ||||
yoffset
|
expression | any | 25 | read/write |
| The vertical offset of tooltip from the mouse position. | ||||
classroot, cloneManager, data, datapath, defaultplacement, id, ignoreplacement, immediateparent, inited, initstage, name, nodeLevel, options, parent, placement, styleclass, subnodes, transition
Methods
animate, applyConstraintMethod, applyData, childOf, completeInstantiation, construct, createChildren, dataBindAttribute, destroy, determinePlacement, getOption, getUID, init, lookupSourceLocator, releaseConstraint, releaseConstraintMethod, searchImmediateSubnodes, searchSubnodes, setOption, setSelected, updateData
Events
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