The tooltipmanager positions tips according to available screen size and what not. DataGridItemRenderer uses TOOL_TIP_SHOW to reposition the tooltip as a datatip.
There is no way to trick the positioning logic per-se. I suppose a custom class could respond to any given x,y and actual give itself a shove. You can try to override ToolTipManager with your own. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ethan Miller Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Positioning Custom ToolTips Tried that, and it did use my custom component, but the x/y offset was still the same... Also dug around in the bowels of the actual draw routines of the tooltip border class, but couldn't quite figure out what there was doing the x/y offset...? The drawRoundRect position values are all between 0 and 4 but actual tooltips (in their default flex state) usually seem like they're offset by 20 - 30 px.... cheers, ethan TOOL_TIP_SHOW doesn't bubble, so it's probably not the best way. I'd say simply subclassing ToolTip and setting ToolTipManager.toolTipClass will be your best bet. -Josh On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Ethan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Example of how to intercept TOOL_TIP_SHOW, please. Alternately, all I really want to do is change the horizontal and vertical offset of the ToolTIp from the item it describes. Any easy, app-wide way to do this? cheers, ethan I think you intercept TOOL_TIP_SHOW and give it a different position. The ToolTipMgr should have placed it already where it think it should be. You can set the ToolTipManager.toolTipClass to have all instances of tooltips be something else, ! but you should extend ToolTip in your custom ToolTip. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ethan Miller Sent: Tuesd ay, August 26, 2008 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Positioning Custom ToolTips Greetings - Per the Flex documentation, I'm using a custom component as a ToolTip by intercepting the toolTipCreate event, as describe below: "In your application, you can create a custom ToolTip by intercepting the toolTipCreate event handler of the target componen! t. In the event handler, you instantiate the new ToolTip and set its properties. You then point the toolTipproperty of the ToolTipEvent object to the new ToolTip." Unlike using the ToolTip Manager, however, which accepts x,y positioning arguments, it's unclear how to position the custom tooltip invoked using the intercept and custom class approach.... So, this leaves me with two questions: 1. Using a custom class or component created using the incercept approach, is there a way to position the tip? or 2. Is there way to use a custom class or component for the tip when using ToolTip Manager to create them? Thanks! ethan -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
