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Line Break in Marker Tooltip [message #307603]

Sat, 26 August 2006 07:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: zelzer.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de

Hi,

I am trying to do some simple formatting with line breaks "\n" and
spaces for some text I want to display in my markers tooltip. I tried to
add a "\n" in the message for the marker but when the message is
displayed in the tooltip, the "\n" just disappeared, not leading to a
line break.

Is this kind of formating possible? Or even better, is it possible to
supply simple HTML for the markers tooltip?

Thanks in advance,

Sascha

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Re: Line Break in Marker Tooltip [message #307642 is a reply to message #307603]

Mon, 28 August 2006 05:15

Dani Megert
Messages: 3801
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Sascha Zelzer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to do some simple formatting with line breaks "\n" and
> spaces for some text I want to display in my markers tooltip. I tried
> to add a "\n" in the message for the marker but when the message is
> displayed in the tooltip, the "\n" just disappeared, not leading to a
> line break.
>
> Is this kind of formating possible?

No.

> Or even better, is it possible to supply simple HTML for the markers
> tooltip?

No.

Dani

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sascha

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Re: Line Break in Marker Tooltip [message #554639 is a reply to message #307642]

Mon, 23 August 2010 15:38

Bahar Sateli
Messages: 19
Registered: May 2010
Location: Canada

Junior Member

So... is that it? "No"? Rolling Eyes

But I've seen multiple lines in markers tool tips. How are they made then?

Bahar

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Re: Line Break in Marker Tooltip [message #1005458 is a reply to message #554639]

Fri, 25 January 2013 09:21

David Whiteman
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2009
Location: Research Triangle Park, N...

Junior Member

Here's an approach that worked for me:

blog.pdark.de/2009/12/26/swt-tree-and-tooltips/

I was able to use the wrap() method described in that post to format a string that when passed to setToolTipText() on a Control would do an intelligent word wrap. It also can handle \n characters. You have to include the commons-lang jar in your classpath in order to use this.

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David Whiteman
Cisco Systems

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