Re: king of (re)setting the tooltipText as app runs

From:

"onetitfemme" <onetitfemme2005@yahoo.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

14 Sep 2006 18:23:58 -0700

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Larry Barowski wrote:

If you mean that you want to compute the text only when the tooltip
is about to be shown, then override getToolTipText(MouseEvent) .
You will also need to do setToolTipText("dummy") to enable tooltips.

..
Exactly! and thank you for "understanding" me ;-)
..
For those of you trying the same thing here is some demo code that
updates the tooltip based on the current time:
..
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

// __
public class ToolTipDemo00 extends JFrame{
JLabel JLbl;
SimpleDateFormat SDF;
// __
public ToolTipDemo00(){
  super();
  getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
  String aPttrn = "yyyyMMddHHmmss";
  SDF = new SimpleDateFormat(aPttrn);
  String aC = ":" + getFrmtdTm() + ":";
  JLbl = new JLabel(aC){
// __ Implement JLabel's tool tips.
   public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent MEvnt){
return(getFrmtdTm()); }
  };
  JLbl.setToolTipText(getFrmtdTm());

JLbl.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.RAISED));
  JLbl.setSize(100, 25);
  getContentPane().add(JLbl);
}
// __
public String getToolTipText() { return
ToolTipDemo00.this.getToolTipText(); }
// __
private String getFrmtdTm(){ return(SDF.format(new Date())); }
// __
public static void main(String[] args) {
  ToolTipDemo00 TTDm = new ToolTipDemo00();
  TTDm.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
   public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){ System.exit(0); }
  });
  TTDm.setSize(200, 150);
  TTDm.setVisible(true);
}
}

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