JidePopup and Tool Tips

[pauer]

Hi all,

I am using a JidePopup with several components on it. It seems, that tool tips don't function on all components laying on this JidePopup.

Here is a little test case to show this problem:

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public class ToolTipDemo extends JidePopup {

   public ToolTipDemo() {
      super();

      JTextField textField = new JTextField();
      textField.setToolTipText("TextField");

      JButton button = new JButton("Close");
      button.addActionListener (new ActionListener () {
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            hidePopup();
         }
      });
      button.setToolTipText("Button");

      getContentPane().add(textField, BorderLayout.CENTER);
      getContentPane().add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

      packPopup();
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ToolTipDemo toolTipDemo = new ToolTipDemo();
      toolTipDemo.showPopup();
   }

}

Can anybody tell me how to make the tool tips work?

Thanks,
Daniel

[JIDE Support]

The tooltip will not be shown if the window doesn't have focus. It is JDK thing that has nothing to do with JIDE. So in order to show tooltip, you will have to make the JidePopup focus. You can either call popup.setFocusable or popup.setDefaultFocusComponent, in your case, to the textField.

Thanks,

[pauer]

Thank you for your help. You are right, that I have to call popup.setDefaultFocusComponent(Component) to make the popup focusable and therefore to show a tool tip on a component laying on the popup.

But there's more to it than that. I figured out, that it is important to call popup.showPopup(Component) to pass the popup window's owner (e.g. a JFrame or JDialog). If I call only popup.showPopup() without a parent container, the popup is still not focusable.

Ciao,
Daniel

[JIDE Support]

You are right.