Thanks Mark. What you're doing seems a little different than what I need but you reminded me I could use FillInData to set the tooltip and that should take care of it I think.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Pete- > > Thursday, December 8, 2011, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote: > > > I know the datagrid has a dgTooltip property that displays when the user > > hovers over a column header but has anyone come up with a way to have a > > tooltip unique to each row? > > > For example, let's say I have a column that uses the datagrid > truncateTail > > function so the data in the column is abbreviated with "..." at the end. > > I'd like to have a way to show the user the complete data in the > > row/column by hovering over it and displaying a tooltip. > > Here's how I do this in PowerTools: I've got a datagrid that contains > thumbnail images, each of which may have a tooltip attached. When I'm > setting up the array for the datagrid I do: > > put the tooltip of control id tWidgetGroup of stack tStackFile into > tArray["ToolTip" & tImageNum] > > then in the behavior script of the datagrid in FillInData: > > if pDataArray["Tooltip" & tWidgetNum] is not empty then > set the tooltip of image tWidgetNum of me to pDataArray["Tooltip" & > tWidgetNum] > end if > > so you could do the same with the text field instead of an image. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
