Hi,
yes that's true. I could do it using the way you described, but in my
case I want to display multiple tooltips at once for printing and that
is only working with the createTooltip method, so I need to use it.
John
Farid SALAH wrote:
>
> Le 23 oct. 08 à 16:32, John Hauf a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question about using Tooltips in flex 3.
>>
>> When I have set the tooltip-property of a UIComponent to a string, I can
>> set the porperty ToolTipManager.toolTipClass to any custom class I
>> want to.
>>
>> If I use the ToolTipManager.createToolTip-method to create the Tooltip
>> manually, I don't have the possibility to use a custom class. Setting
>> the toolTipClass has no effect. I checked the
>> mx.managers.ToolTipManagerImpl-class and found out, that in the
>> createToolTip-method always the standard ToolTip-class is used.
>>
>> Is there any other solution to get custom classes working, than patching
>> the ToolTipManagerImpl-class?
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>
>
> I think that if you go as deep as patching the Impl classes of any
> framework, there's something wrong.
> There's a simpler way to do that.
>
> Your component should do:
>
> myComponent.addEventListener(ToolTipEvent.TOOL_TIP_CREATE,tooltipDetailCreate);
>
> myComponent.toolTip = " ";
>
> then you should do something like...
>
> private function tooltipDetailCreate(event:ToolTipEvent):void {
> var tt:PieChartToolTip = new PieChartToolTip();
> tt.width = 390;
> tt.height = 180;
> tt.dataProvider = // whatever data provider or property you need to
> set for your tooltip component
> tt.headerText = "My tooltip header"
> event.toolTip = tt;
> }
>
> In our case our component is a some king of gauge which shows some
> progression and its tooltip is a PieChart which shows the repartition
> of the data from the progression.
>
> That way, whenever a tooltip event is fired it will display your component.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Farid from Paris, France
>
>
