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Bug 51633 - [Viewers] It is desired to be able to show tooltips for individual items in the TreeViewer
Summary: [Viewers] It is desired to be able to show tooltips for individual items in t...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1.2   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Nick Edgar CLA
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Depends on: 8874
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Reported: 2004-02-11 09:43 EST by Eugene Ostroukhov CLA
Modified: 2004-09-24 10:42 EDT (History)
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Description Eugene Ostroukhov CLA 2004-02-11 09:43:03 EST 
I.e. if I have some tree of the variables (in my project variable is a mapping 
between name and expression) I will show name as a lable and expression as a 
tooltip. Or, I will show filename as a label and full path as a tooltip.
Comment 1 Michael Seele CLA 2004-09-24 03:16:41 EDT 
is it not possible to show a tooltip for a specified cell or at least for a row?
when will you work on this enhancement?
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2004-09-24 10:36:35 EDT 
JFace viewers currently provide no support for tooltips.
There are currently no plans to extend JFace in this area.
Also not that SWT does not provide direct support for per-item tooltips.
However, it's possible to emulate in SWT.  See the "create fake tooltips"
snippet at:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html#snippets

This could be done in conjunction with a viewer.  To obtain the model element
corresponding to a TableItem, use item.getData().
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2004-09-24 10:42:18 EDT 
Marking as wontfix since per-item tooltips are not directly supported by SWT
(see bug 8874).