Re: Is posible have multi

From	"Mark Holland" <mark.holland@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Is posible have multi
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Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
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Date	2011-04-27 15:32 +0000
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"RC" <raymond.chui@nospam.noaa.gov> wrote in message 
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>I tried
>
> String toolTipText = "Line1\nLine2\rLine3<br />";
>
> myJComponent.setToolTipText(toolTipText);
>
> But I only got the single line.
>
> Is possible to have multiple lines in ToolTip?
> If yes, how do I set the multiple line mode?
>
> Thank Q very much in advance!

It is possible to do this, since (I think) tool tips are displayed in 
a kind of customised JLabel.
You were fairly close with your first guess - the answer is to format 
your tool-tip text with html.

e.g.
String toolTipText = "<html>Line1<br>Line2<br>Line3</html>";
myJComponent.setToolTipText(toolTipText);

Of course, if you do this then you need to escape any special html 
characters in your text.
For example, if you want to display the text "a < b\n line2" then you 
need:

String toolTipText = "<html>a &lt; b<br> line2</html";

Because of this, some people have written their own classes which you 
can find using google.
One I found is this http://www.codeguru.com/java/articles/122.shtml, 
although I didn't test it.

Mark

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Is posible have multiple "RC" <rc@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:32 +0000
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