[Tip] Show Tooltips

[Vlad Cheater]

Wow, this is amazing!
Thank you Dave!

[Symbroson Development]

Isn't that a bit useless because there's already a SetHint function?
but ok if you like it ^^

[Steve Garman]

Alex,
The tooltip does not perform the same function as SetHint at all.

edt.SetHint only displays in an empty TextEdit and cannot be seen at all without removing any content.

The tooltip is not associated with any control and can be displayed anywhere on the screen when required.

In the app from which the screenshot is taken, the TextEdit is prepopulated with a sampe URL and the tooltip is displayed when the "?" button is pressed.

[Steve Garman]

Here is a longer "use it like this" example.

function OnStart()
{
lay = app.CreateLayout( "linear", "VCenter,FillXY" );
img = app.CreateImage( "/Sys/Img/Droid1.png", 0.5 );
img.SetOnTouchUp( showTip );
lay.AddChild( img );
app.AddLayout( lay );
}
function showTip()
{
var pos = img.GetPosition();
var btm = pos.top + this.GetHeight()*2/3;
var msg = "This is a picture of a droid. <br>It comes from System Resources";
app.ShowTip(msg, pos.left, btm);
}

[JAUREGUI]

That's just great, thanks it will be very useful...

[Erina Ebru]

This is absolutely great. Totally cool 4 tutorials or so🤗☺🤗

[Symbroson Development]

Ok thats a good usage ur right ^^

[MyScripts]

tooltip when clicked gives an error [ script error: func.apply is not a function, source: file:///android_asset/app.js line: 1606]

[Steve Garman]

The code in this thread was very old and used out-of-date callback syntax.

It has been replaced with
app.ShowTip()
There is example code in the latest docs.

I can't remember offhand whether ShowTip is a premium feature but it's not flagged in the docs as such.

[Steve Garman]

It looks like the same func.apply problem has made it into the api version as well.

Looks like nobody tested touching the tooltip.

[MyScripts]

How could I fix this in app.js?

line 1606

function _Call( id, func, params)
{ if( func ) func.apply( _map[id], params ); }

[Symbroson]

 as quick fix, add this line to your code after the ShowTip call:

_cbMap['3533501187'] = _dlgTip.Dismiss;

However don't keep that in your code because it will break if any slight change on the internal OnToch method is made.

[MyScripts]

OK thank you :) could this be added to droidscript app.js? In file: ///android_asset/app.js, create a line of code to fix this or should i expect an update?

[Symbroson]

It 's likely to be fixed in one of the next updates.

btw the issue is not located in app.js

[MyScripts]

ok anyway thanks for the help.

[Dave]

This is now fixed in alpha 179a2 (soon to be released)

In the mean time a better fix would be to put this somewhere in your code (it overrides the internal DS version):-

//Show a tooltip message.
var _dlgTip = null;
_ShowTip = function( msg, left, top, timeOut, options )
{
    //Get options.
    if( options ) options = options.toLowerCase();
    else options = "";
   
    //Remove old tip if still showing.
    if( _dlgTip ) { _dlgTip.Dismiss(); clearTimeout(_dlgTip._tm) }
   
    //Create dialog window.
    _dlgTip = app.CreateDialog( null, "AutoCancel,NoDim,"+options );
    _dlgTip.SetBackColor( "#00000000" );
    _dlgTip.SetPosition( left, top );
   
    //Create tip layout.
    var layTipDlg = app.CreateLayout( "linear", "vertical,fillxy" );
   
    //Create tip text.
    var txt = app.CreateText( msg, -1,-1, "MultiLine,left,Html" );
    txt.SetTextSize( 22, "ps" );
    if( options.indexOf("up")>-1 ) txt.SetBackground( "/Res/drawable/tooltip_up" );
    else  txt.SetBackground( "/Res/drawable/tooltip_down" );
    txt.SetOnTouch( function() { _dlgTip.Dismiss() } );
    layTipDlg.AddChild( txt );
   
    //Add dialog layout and show dialog.
    _dlgTip.AddLayout( layTipDlg );
    _dlgTip.Show();
    if( timeOut ) {
        _dlgTip._tm = setTimeout( function(){
            if(_dlgTip)_dlgTip.Dismiss(); _dlgTip=null
        }, timeOut );
    }
}

[MyScripts]

I will wait for the new version but in the meantime I will use your code, thanks!