It's possible, but ugly. I did a similar thing in a project I'm working on where I wanted errorTips to show on focusIn/focusOut. I created a subclass of ToolTipManagerImpl and overrode the registerErrorTip method - you'd want to override registerToolTip instead. The current implementation adds mouseOver/Out listeners to decide when to show/hide the tooltip. You can change this to add a click listener instead.
Then, you have to monkey patch ToolTipManager so that it uses your ToolTipManagerImpl subclass. In the getter for the impl property, just change it to create a new instance of your subclass instead of checking the Singleton registry. That should be a start, anyway, if you're up to some hacks. --- In [email protected], "Borek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My situation is that users can hover over a help icon and get a nice > help tooltip. One problem is that this tooltip isn't displayed > immediately (there is a 0.5s lag by default) which is easily fixed by > showDelay property on ToolTipManager. However, there is this second > problem: some users click the help icon instead of just hovering over > it. This will unfortunately hide the tooltip so the action is exactly > opposite of what the users expected. > > The was to fix this would be something like > > <Image id="helpIcon" click="helpIcon.showTooltip()" tooltip="Some help > text" ... /> > > which would trigger tooltip creation as usual. Unfortunately, there is > no method like that [in Flex 2] and I couldn't find any feasible > replacement. Is there any solution to this? > > N.B. ToolTipManager.createToolTip() doesn't help - first of all, it > creates an instance of ToolTip (which is hardcoded which I think is > wrong - it should respect ToolTipManager.toolTipClass IMO). Second, > this method is for generic creation of arbitraty tooltips which is not > my case - I like my tooltip and just want to find a way to trigger it > other than hovering over the UIComponent with a mouse. > > P.P.S In the internal ToolTipManagerImls class, there is a (private) > method createTip(). Well that sounds good except it's a private method > in an internal class... >
