rather than get the data of the line (unkeyed) can you just grab the index, and use that to pick out your tooltip? (barely glanced at this so far, so i might be way off)
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Great tip! (pun intended) > > So here is what I came up with. Keep in mind that tKeyList is a list of > columns I want in the tooltip. The idea is to present the user with a > tooltip containing summary information on the datagrid data record. I had > to prepend a counter to each key so that it would sort based on the order > of the items in tKeyList. Arrays. SHEESH! Sure would be nice if the keys > were in the order they were added! > > I will probably move the relevant code into another handler in my > Utilities backscript, then pass the long id of the target, and the key list > to that handler. I will also probably update this handler so that in the > event no keylist is passed, I will get the datagrid column labels, and use > those for a key list. > > on mouseEnter > local tKeyList > wait 1 second with messages > put the target into tTargetName > put tTargetName into tTarget -- we need to preserver the original name > > if the first word of tTarget is not "field" then > pass mouseEnter > end if > > put "sitename,addr1,city,state,zip,contactname,contactphone,contactemail," > into tKeyList > put "itname,itphone,itemail" after keyList > replace quote with empty in tTargetName > put the last word of tTargetName into tLine > put the dgDataOfLine [tLine] of me into aLineData > > repeat for each item tKey in tKeyList > add 1 to tCounter > put aLineData [tKey] into aRecordData [tCounter & ". " & tKey] > end repeat > > put arrayToText(aRecordData, "record") into tText > sort lines of tText > set the tooltip of tTarget to tText > show the tooltip of tTarget > breakpoint > pass mouseEnter > end mouseEnter > > function arrayToText aArrayData, pFormat, pStripRecordKeys > if aArrayData is not an array then > put "ERROR: Data passed is not an array!" into theValue > return theValue > end if > > if pStripRecordKeys is not in "true|false" then put false into > pStripRecordKeys > -- sort tArrayKeys ascending > > -- may be an array of values > put the keys of aArrayData into tArrayKeys > sort lines of tArrayKeys numeric ascending > put line 1 of tArrayKeys is 0 into tHasHeader > > -- convert single array to numeric array of arrays > if line 1 of tArrayKeys is not a number then > put aArrayData into aTempArray [1] > put aTempArray into aArrayData > put the keys of aArrayData into tArrayKeys > end if > > switch pFormat > case "record" > repeat for each line tArrayKey in tArrayKeys > put aArrayData [tArrayKey] into aArrayRecord > put the keys of aArrayRecord into tColumnKeys > > repeat for each line tColumnKey in tColumnKeys > put tColumnKey & ": " & aArrayRecord [tColumnKey] & cr > after tValue > end repeat > end repeat > break > case "table" > -- table header > if not tHasHeader then put cr into tValue > > repeat for each line tArrayKey in tArrayKeys > add 1 to tCount > put aArrayData [tArrayKey] into aArrayRecord > put the keys of aArrayRecord into tColumnKeys > sort lines of tColumnKeys numeric ascending > > repeat for each line tColumnKey in tColumnKeys > if pStripRecordKeys and (char 1 of tColumnKey is "@") > then next repeat > > if tCount = 1 and not tHasHeader then put tColumnKey & > tab after line 1 of tValue > put aArrayRecord [tColumnKey] & tab after tValue > end repeat > > put cr into last char of tValue > end repeat > break > end switch > > return tValue > end arrayToText > > Bob S > > > > On Jul 11, 2017, at 19:09 , Mike Bonner via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > There should be a couple ways.. Assuming the tooltip data and the > displayed > > data are already associated, you can do as suggested and pass in the > popop > > information as part of the dgdata.. Then in the fillindata you 'set the > > tooltip of field 1 of me to ... the data that was passed in with the > array. > > To do this though i _Think_ you'd need a custom behavior for every > > column. > > > > To get around this, you could use a mouseenter in the script of the > > datagrid itself that does something like.. > > > > on mouseenter > > get the text of the target > > -- then use the text of the target to look up your tooltip data and.. > > set the tooltip of the target to "whateveryouwant" > > > > end mouseenter > > > > i tested by setting the tooltip to a random number and it seems to work > > fine. > > > > If you're using a form rather than a grid, its much easier, just use the > > first method in the behavior script to set whatever tooltips you like as > > part of the fillindata. A single script edit to handle all tooltips. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
