custom tooltip

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masandeep
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custom tooltip

Post by masandeep » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:05 pm

How to create custom tooltip for xyline chart

Thanx in advance

prolaznik22
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Post by prolaznik22 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:58 pm

Pretty much every renderer has setToolTipGenerator (generator) method. Basically, you would implement your own class that overrides a generator and call setToolTipGenerator on your class. For example,

XYItemRenderer has setToolTipGenerator (XYToolTipGenerator generator)

So you would implement your custom tooltip class that extends XYToolTip generator (Actually, XYToolTipGenerator is an interface, but I assume it points to some class that implements XYToolTipGenerator interface) .

e.g. public class mygenerator extends StandardXYToolTipGenerator { }

And as I previously said StandardXYToolTipGenerator implements XYToolTipGenerator interface.

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