We can select a tag within the ToolTipText. Problem is that I don’t know how to get it converted to the value behind the tag…
Merge tags don’t work on tooltips at the moment. You’ll have to use a method if you want to use dataproviders in the tooltip text. Correction of this dialog or support for merge texts in tooltips is on the planning (but won’t make it into 1.2)
tags can now (>2.0b6) be used in tooltips.
they work for most fields (button/label/textfield,area) now except a view expectiations
Thanks Johan…
hmm. I tried with 2.0 rc3 and nothing appears when using a tag (I tried for example to just put the field content itself in a tooltip).
Any ideas? What I am doing wrong?
Correction: it does work on simple fields (with display tags checked) but it doesn’t seem to work on fields inside a portal…
Works fine for me if i set a %%recordIndex%%/%%maxRecordIndex%% tooltip on a element in a portal it shows nicely 1/4 or something like that.
of course the recordIndex is always the selected record index, also if you ask the tooltip of other rows in the portal.
what I was trying to do was to show a calculation for a certain record. Let’s say you have a list of records in a portal that shows only the important things. If a user wants to see more, of course he can edit that record. But here I thought it comes in handy to display additional data in a tool tip.
So I have a calculation in the related data that I want to show. So what I was doing is something like %%relation.field%%. And this one doesn’t give results in my tests.
Thanks, Patrick
hmm for version i use (RC5) it works fine for me see the picture.
(so if it doesn’t work for you please test it again when RC5 is comming out this week)
I have a calculation that just concats all the values
i show that as a tooltip of a field that i show in the portal (set the displayTags of that field)
I will try with the next version.
I have just tried again and I noticed a little black dot appears underneath the cursor, but the tool tip doesn’t.
I tried with RC5 and it doesn’t work either. A little black dot appears underneath the cursor and that’s it.
When playing around with this I noticed another problem when using comboboxes in a portal. Before RC5 the values were not always shown. This is fixed now, but when you turn on “display tags” they are gone.
tooltip works fine for me, it looks like a system thing.
where are you running on what version of the JRE/JDK (you can see this in the About box)
what kind of look and feel are you using?
i will look at the combobox with the displaytags property set on.. (this isn’t a thing what you normally would set to true but now with tooltips we ofcourse want to do now…)
Version R2 2.0 rc5-build 264
Java version 1.4.2_03-b02 (Windows XP)
Windows LAF; I also tried Kunststoff, no results either.
Tooltips work in tab panels with a table view but not in a portal.