> 10) There is no step 10 How about "Document it on the Wiki"! :-)
/Gwyn On 08/08/06, Johannes Fahrenkrug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've asked so many questions on this list and got so many friendly and > helpful answers, it's time to give something back. > This Saturday I migrated a big web application from Wicket 1.1.1 to > 1.2.1. I was using the contrib-dojo Tooltip class, which doesn't work > with 1.2, so I had to find another solution. I found Igor's suggestions > for tooltips at http://del.icio.us/ivaynberg/tooltip and chose to go > with "Sweet Titles". > > Sweet titles is great, but the problem is that it automatically attaches > tooltips to all <a>, <abbr> and <acronym> tags (correct me if I'm wrong, > but I am sure about the <a> tag). I didn't want that, though. I needed > tooltips for checkboxes, and I needed to explicitly say which element > should show a tooltip and which element shouldn't. So I altered the > sweetTitles.js a bit and this is what I came up with: > > 1) Download SweetTitles from > http://www.dustindiaz.com/downloads/sweet-titles.zip > 2) Replace sweetTitles.js with the one I attached to this email. > 3) At the moment the replacement sweetTitles.js should be able to add > tooltips to the following elements: 'input', 'td', 'tr', 'textarea', > 'select', 'span', 'div', 'a','abbr','acronym'. If that's not enough (or > too much), edit the "tipElements" array at the top of the file. > 4) Put the 2 JavaScript files somewhere into your package (ie > org.example.app.javascript) > 5) Either put the CSS file into your package as well or add the contents > to a CSS file you already use in your application > 6) Add this to the head section of the html file you want to use > tooltips in: > > <wicket:link> > <script wicket:id="addEventJs"></script> > <script wicket:id="sweetTitlesJs"></script> > </wicket:link> > > 7) Add the JavaScript resources to your page: > > add(new JavaScriptReference("addEventJs", new > PackageResourceReference(YourApplication.get(), YourPage.class, > "javascript/addEvent.js"))); > add(new JavaScriptReference("sweetTitlesJs", new > PackageResourceReference(YourApplication.get(), YourPage.class, > "javascript/sweetTitles.js"))); > > 8) Add the Attribute "showtooltip" to the element that should show a > tooltip (only elements with this attibute will show tooltips): > > someWicketComponent.add(new AttributeModifier("showtooltip", true, new > Model("true"))); > > 9) Either add the content of the tooltip to the element in the html > file, using the "title" attribute: > > <input type="checkbox" wicket:id="myCheckbox" title="Hi, I am a tooltip."/> > > ...or add dynamic tooltip texts using an AttributeModifier: > > someWicketComponent.add(new AttributeModifier("title", true, new > Model("Hi, I am a dynamic tooltip."))); > > 10) There is no step 10 > > I hope this is helpful to somebody. Any improvements are very much > encouraged, of course! > > - Johannes > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > > -- Download Wicket 1.2.1 now! - http://wicketframework.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
