Just wanted to note that I have made a good progress on this over the weekend and I have running example on my machine.
Honza On Feb 27, 1:49 pm, "Honza (Jan Odvarko)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 27, 12:53 am, tan <[email protected]> wrote:> I have a module that adds > a new tab to the request entry (based on the > > tutorial on your blog) > > > In my tab body I need to display an info tip (with custom info) when > > the user mouse hover particular elements in my tab body. > > Since the module is not a full Fb panel, but a module that adds a Net > > request tab I do not get an InfoTip element and not the showInfoTip > > function. > > Yep, exactly. > > > I see the logic for the info tip in the Fb Net.js code, but I can not > > see there are any way for me to populate the Net info tip with custom > > info. > > You should be able to call populateTimeInfoTip or populateSizeInfoTip > and pass data in the second parameter (file). The tip template > (domplate) is reading data from this object. > > > I have looked at the InfoTip.js code, but I can not see that I can > > create a new InfoTip on my own (or am I wrong here) > > > In short, what I need is a custom Info tip for my Net request tab. > > > Off-course this can be done creating my own info tip, but I was just > > looking at my options first ;) > > I don't think you can easily show the tip (reused from the panel or > your own) within the custom tab. > As you correctly mentioned, you don't have a new panel and so, you > don't have showInfoTip method. > Firebug.InfoTip is distribution the "showInfoTip" event only to the > currently selected panel. > > I think we should distribute the "showInfoTip" also to registered > listeners through "dispatch", which is a mechanism already used on > many places in Firebug so, shortly, here is the showInfoTip in InfoTip > object: > > Firebug.InfoTip = extend(Firebug.Module, > { > showInfoTip: function(infoTip, panel, target, x, y, rangeParent, > rangeOffset) > { > if (!Firebug.showInfoTips) > return; > > if (panel.showInfoTip(infoTip, target, scrollX, y, > rangeParent, rangeOffset)) > { > // panel.showInfoTip returns true, which means the panel > is displaying a tip for the given target. > } > else > { > // info tip is not displayed, give a chance to the other > listeners. > var result = dispatch2(this.fbListeners, "showInfoTip", > [infoTip, target, scrollX, y, rangeParent, rangeOffset]); > } > } > > }); > > In your case you would register the custom net tab as a listener > > Firebug.InfoTip.addListener(...) > > and handle the event. > > If you thing this is the correct way for you, please report a new bug > and I'll prepare a patch! > > As soon as this concept is properly designed we can solve the problem > how to reuse tips in the net panel (I guess it'll be simple, if not > working already) > > Honza -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
