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Tooltip on Text [message #754238]

Tue, 01 November 2011 11:14

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Missing name Mising name
Messages: 7
Registered: September 2011

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Hello Team,

I have a question on tooltip. I have a Text Widget. I am trying to set a tooltip text on the Text. But it's not showing up on my final UI.
the code is as follows:

final Text colorDisplayText = new Text( colorOptionsGrp, SWT.NONE );
colorDisplayText.setToolTipText( "swtColor" );

I appreciate it if anyone could throw some light on me!

Thanks a lot!
Suresh

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Re: Tooltip on Text [message #754245 is a reply to message #754238]

Tue, 01 November 2011 11:49

Missing name Mising name
Messages: 7
Registered: September 2011

Junior Member

Ok, I got the answer. you have to enable text to see the tooltip. You should not do colorDisplayText.setEnabled(false);
Well if you do that, you will see the cursor when hovered over the textbox, changed to that of a text-entry type which is awful!
So Text is not at all useful if you want a tooltip.
Use 'Label' instead it works fine!

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