Controling width of tool tip

karthikasok · Post by **karthikasok** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:02 pm

hi,

How can i control the width of a tooltip. If the string
i display on the tooltip is very large the tooltip occupies
the whole screen and even goes beyond that. Ay idea

thanks in advance

karthikasok · Post by **karthikasok** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:53 am

i tried giving the newline character in the string.
but it takes '\n' as a string only and dispays a single line.

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:00 am

More recent versions of Swing support HTML in tooltips I think, so you could try adding <br> tags.

karthikasok · Post by **karthikasok** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:39 am

im using jdk 1.5. but the html tags still doesnt work

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:19 pm

OK, sorry for the misinformation. I'm sure I saw this working somewhere...when I get a chance, I'll try it out. I guess there is a possibility that this is LookAndFeel specific - which one are you using?

skunk · Post by **skunk** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:40 pm

All swing text components support the display of HTML. For example

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"<html><body>line1<br>line2</body></html>"

will be displayed as 2 lines

potterd64 · Post by **potterd64** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:54 pm

the <br> tags wont work by themselves, but if you enclose the whole string in <html></html> tags it'll accept the <br> tags.

karthikasok · Post by **karthikasok** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:27 pm

oh great.
Thanks a lot. It works great

szanjad · Post by **szanjad** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:29 am

Tool tip width can be controlled by setting the property for the overlib... Nothing special needs to be done other than setting this attribute in your javascript