Thank you Craig. I have just put the finishing touches on a new application which uses two simple datagrids. For all their pretty alternating row color allure, they sure are a pain to work with.
~Roger On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > Roger. > > > Sure you can, but datagrids are complex. > > > You can "set the toolTip of field "col 1 0001" to "whatever" > > > and the tip will appear when you hover over the first field of the first > column. This is the default name schema of fields in datagrids, and those > names can be changed. > > > But when editing, a separate "phantom" field is created on the fly at the > rect of the field to be edited, and this will hamper the tip from showing, > because the phantom overlies it, so the tooltip will not be invoked. > > > All this is manageable, I guess, The name of the editing field is > "dataGridFieldEditor", and you could have that field's toolTip reflect the > underlying field. > > > Craig Newman _______________________________________________ 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