com.ibm.commons.swt.controls.tooltip
Class SimpleTooltip

java.lang.Object
  com.ibm.commons.swt.controls.custom.CustomTooltip
      com.ibm.commons.swt.controls.tooltip.SimpleTooltip

public class SimpleTooltip
extends CustomTooltip

Simple tooltip, displays a single text based tooltip.

Method Summary

static SimpleTooltip	create(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control parentControl, org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point pt, java.lang.String text) Static factory used for creating SimpleTooltip instances.
protected void	createTooltipPart(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite parent) The CustomTooltip class will create a new shell object, and will set its co-ordinates so it appears beside the reference control (provided to the concrete class via constructor).

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.commons.swt.controls.custom.CustomTooltip

create, dispose, getId, getShell, setId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

create

public static SimpleTooltip create(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control parentControl,
                                   org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point pt,
                                   java.lang.String text)

Static factory used for creating SimpleTooltip instances.

Parameters:

parentControl - - reference control, also used as a parent control.

pt - - the point where the tooltip should appear.

text - - the text to appear in the tooltip

Returns:

createTooltipPart

protected void createTooltipPart(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite parent)

Description copied from class: CustomTooltip

The CustomTooltip class will create a new shell object, and will set its co-ordinates so it appears beside the reference control (provided to the concrete class via constructor).

Specified by:

createTooltipPart in class CustomTooltip

Parameters:

parent - - A shell created internally by the CustomTooltip CustomTooltip.create(Control, Point) method.