SettableTooltipClient

[TheWaveWarden]

I’m trying to give my custom components a tooltip, but can’t work it out. (The standard JUCE components work fine.)

Here’s what im doing:
Inherit from settableTooltipClient
call setTooltip("foo"); somewhere.

what am I missing?

I will award you bonus points for telling me how to change the font size in the tooltip without rewriting the entire draw() callback

[daniel]

I went in your trap. The TextLayout layoutTooltipText() is a static method, so I see no way changing that without rewriting the polymorphic getTooltipBounds() and drawTooltip ():

WeAreROLI/JUCE/blob/develop/modules/juce_gui_basics/lookandfeel/juce_LookAndFeel_V2.cpp#L48

About the not showing up, any chance, you disabled the setInterceptMouseClicks() on your component or one of it’s parents? It blocks hitTest and therefore mouseEnter and mouseExit as well…
Just a shot in the dark…

[TheWaveWarden]

Ok I got it. The problem was that my custom components had child components themselves, which were screen filling. And the tooltip only shows for the uppermost component.

(Kinda obvious in hindsight ^^)

[ttg]

another tip for folks getting to this discussion looking for an answer is the SettableTooltipClient should be public / accessible.

Also of course you must have the TooltipWindow -

Why setTooltip doesn't work?

In extra/example projects, I just write one line code in MainComponent contructor: quitButton->setTooltip(L"this is a quti button"); But when the mouse on the quit button,the tool tip doeesn’t work. I also read extra/JuceDemo souce code,setTooltip work in JuceDemo, I don’t know why,what’s the difference between the two projects. Thanks.