Tooltips in XYImageAnnotations

swperman · Post by **swperman** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:36 pm

Is there a way to show tooltips (small box with text) when you hover the mouse over the image? Or maybe making the image clickable, then opening a small window when user clicks it...? Is it possible?

Post by **david.gilbert** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:38 pm

The XYImageAnnotation class inherits a setToolTipText() method from AbstractXYAnnotation.

swperman · Post by **swperman** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:11 pm

Just one more quick question... apparently setToolTipText() method doesn't support line breaks. I tried both "\n" and System.getProperties("line.separator") and none worked. Is there a way to show multiple lines inside the tooltip? thanks again =)

skunk · Post by **skunk** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:46 pm

JFreeChart uses the standard Swing tooltip support. Tooltips (like every other Swing text component) can render a subset of html. This will do what you want:

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setToolTipText("<html><body>line1<br>line2</body></html>");