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[UI forms] getting reference to a Form's TitleLabel [message #551397]

Fri, 06 August 2010 09:35

Henno Vermeulen

Messages: 126
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I hope this is the right forum for my Eclipse UI forms question...

I would like to set a tooltiptext to the TitleLabel inside a Form.

Calling setToolTipText on the form does not work. Setting it on form.getHead() puts the tooltip on the area which shows messages which is not what I want because it gets overriden anyway.

I am also using a custom org.eclipse.jface.window.ToolTip so I will need a reference to the Control that has the label, which is:

form.head.titleRegion.titleLabel and it is totally internal to Eclipse...

Should I give up and redesign my UI and put my tooltip somewhere else? Should I do dirty reflection tricks or should I post a feature request on the Eclipse Bugzilla?

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Re: [UI forms] getting reference to a Form's TitleLabel [message #551399 is a reply to message #551397]

Fri, 06 August 2010 09:46

Henno Vermeulen

Messages: 126
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Oh well, the dirty reflection trick seems to work...

DISCLAIMER: I am using Eclipse internal stuff and this may not work in the future...... (I tested it with ui forms 3.4.1)

		Form form = headerForm.getForm();
		Object titleRegion = ReflectionUtil.readField(form
				.getHead(), "titleRegion");
		Label titleLabel = (Label) ReflectionUtil.readField(titleRegion,
				"titleLabel");
		new FancyToolTip(titleLabel,
				"<forms><p>This is a <b>test</b></p><p>hahaha</p></forms>");

Where FancyToolTip is from here.

[Updated on: Fri, 06 August 2010 09:51]

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