Tooltip for a table cell

[pp_dv]

Hello,

I have a table which uses a table model, a subclass of AbstractMultiTableModel. I would want to set tool tips for these cells if the data is truncated.

I cannot add a mouse listener nor can I implement the CellRenderer as I won't have the method setToolTip in the context of the class in either case.

Also I cannot override the getToolTip(MouseEvent e) of JTable as I dont have a table and also that method would set the tooltip for a table but not for a particular cell.

Is there something available in the jide demos to implement this functionality? Or is there a way that I can implement this may be using AWT alone?

[JIDE Support]

You can at least override getToolTip and use rowAtPoint and columnAtPoint to find out which cell the mouse is on then find out the correct tooltip to return in getToolTip method. In fact, ideal way is to use cell renderer to do it in JTable. I am not sure why you said you can't do it that way.

Thanks,

[pp_dv]

I dont have a reference to the Jtable within my tablemodel. That is why I cannot use the getToolTip or rowAtPoint method. Also that is the reason why I cannot implement using a cell renderer (I wont have the reference to JTable in that case as well.).

[JIDE Support]

I don't understand though. Why you need JTable in your table model. I didn't ask you to implement it in your table model. My first suggestion is to ask you to implement on your JTable. In cell renderer, there is table passed as parameter to getTableCellRendererComponent method so you do have access to JTable.

Thanks,