com.trolltech.qt.gui
Class QToolTip

java.lang.Object
  com.trolltech.qt.internal.QSignalEmitterInternal
      com.trolltech.qt.QSignalEmitter
          com.trolltech.qt.QtJambiObject
              com.trolltech.qt.gui.QToolTip

All Implemented Interfaces:

QtJambiInterface

public final class QToolTip
extends QtJambiObject

The QToolTip class provides tool tips (balloon help) for any widget. The tip is a short piece of text reminding the user of the widget's function. It is drawn immediately below the given position in a distinctive black-on-yellow color combination. The tip can be any rich text formatted string.

Rich text displayed in a tool tip is implicitly word-wrapped unless specified differently with <p style='white-space:pre'>.

The simplest and most common way to set a widget's tool tip is by calling its QWidget::setToolTip() function.

It is also possible to show different tool tips for different regions of a widget, by using a QHelpEvent of type QEvent::ToolTip . Intercept the help event in your widget's event() function and call QToolTip::showText() with the text you want to display. The Tooltips example illustrates this technique.

If you are calling QToolTip::hideText(), or QToolTip::showText() with an empty string, as a result of a ToolTip -event you should also call ignore() on the event, to signal that you don't want to start any tooltip specific modes.

Note that, if you want to show tooltips in an item view, the model/view architecture provides functionality to set an item's tool tip; e.g., the QTableWidgetItem::setToolTip() function. However, if you want to provide custom tool tips in an item view, you must intercept the help event in the QAbstractItemView::viewportEvent() function and handle it yourself.

The default tool tip color and font can be customized with setPalette() and setFont(). When a tooltip is currently on display, isVisible() returns true and text() the currently visible text.

Note: Tool tips use the inactive color group of QPalette, because tool tips are not active windows.

See also:

QWidget::toolTip, QAction::toolTip, and Tool Tips Example.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.QSignalEmitter

QSignalEmitter.AbstractSignal, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal0, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal1, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal2, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal3, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal4, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal5, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal6, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal7, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal8, QSignalEmitter.PrivateSignal9, QSignalEmitter.Signal0, QSignalEmitter.Signal1, QSignalEmitter.Signal2, QSignalEmitter.Signal3, QSignalEmitter.Signal4, QSignalEmitter.Signal5, QSignalEmitter.Signal6, QSignalEmitter.Signal7, QSignalEmitter.Signal8, QSignalEmitter.Signal9

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.internal.QSignalEmitterInternal

com.trolltech.qt.internal.QSignalEmitterInternal.AbstractSignalInternal

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.internal.QSignalEmitterInternal

currentSender

Method Summary

static QFont	font() Returns the font used to render tooltips.
static void	hideText() Hides the tool tip.
static boolean	isVisible() Returns true if this tooltip is currently shown.
static QPalette	palette() Returns the palette used to render tooltips.
static void	setFont(QFont arg__1) Sets the font used to render tooltips.
static void	setPalette(QPalette arg__1) Sets the palette used to render tooltips.
static void	showText(QPoint pos, java.lang.String text) This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
static void	showText(QPoint pos, java.lang.String text, QWidget w) This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.
static void	showText(QPoint pos, java.lang.String text, QWidget w, QRect rect) Shows text as a tool tip, with the global position pos as the point of interest.
static java.lang.String	text() Returns the tooltip text, if a tooltip is visible, or an empty string if a tooltip is not visible.

Methods inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.QtJambiObject

dispose, disposed, equals, finalize, reassignNativeResources, tr, tr, tr

Methods inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.QSignalEmitter

blockSignals, disconnect, disconnect, signalsBlocked, signalSender, thread

Methods inherited from class com.trolltech.qt.internal.QSignalEmitterInternal

__qt_signalInitialization

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.trolltech.qt.QtJambiInterface

disableGarbageCollection, nativeId, nativePointer, reenableGarbageCollection, setJavaOwnership

Method Detail

font

public static QFont font()

Returns the font used to render tooltips.

See also:

setFont().

hideText

public static void hideText()

Hides the tool tip. This is the same as calling showText() with an empty string.

See also:

showText().

isVisible

public static boolean isVisible()

Returns true if this tooltip is currently shown.

See also:

showText().

palette

public static QPalette palette()

Returns the palette used to render tooltips.

Note: Tool tips use the inactive color group of QPalette, because tool tips are not active windows.

See also:

setPalette().

setFont

public static void setFont(QFont arg__1)

Sets the font used to render tooltips.

See also:

font().

setPalette

public static void setPalette(QPalette arg__1)

Sets the palette used to render tooltips.

Note: Tool tips use the inactive color group of QPalette, because tool tips are not active windows.

See also:

palette().

showText

public static void showText(QPoint pos,
                            java.lang.String text)

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.

This is analogous to calling QToolTip::showText(pos, text, w, QRect())

showText

public static void showText(QPoint pos,
                            java.lang.String text,
                            QWidget w)

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience.

This is analogous to calling QToolTip::showText(pos, text, w, QRect())

showText

public static void showText(QPoint pos,
                            java.lang.String text,
                            QWidget w,
                            QRect rect)

Shows text as a tool tip, with the global position pos as the point of interest. The tool tip will be shown with a platform specific offset from this point of interest.

If you specify a non-empty rect the tip will be hidden as soon as you move your cursor out of this area.

The rect is in the coordinates of the widget you specify with w. If the rect is not empty you must specify a widget. Otherwise this argument can be 0 but it is used to determine the appropriate screen on multi-head systems.

If text is empty the tool tip is hidden. If the text is the same as the currently shown tooltip, the tip will not move. You can force moving by first hiding the tip with an empty text, and then showing the new tip at the new position.

text

public static java.lang.String text()

Returns the tooltip text, if a tooltip is visible, or an empty string if a tooltip is not visible.