Tooltip / Balloon Help Demo
The AWT does not provide tooltips / balloon help,
although the newer Swing toolkit does.
This
BubbleHelper
class lets any of your AWT components have balloon help.
It does require the 1.1 event model.
For any components that implement the
Mapping
interaface by providing a
public String XYToString (int x, int y)
method,
the balloon help will change with cursor position over the component.
Your application may of course make further use of the method.
This HelpDemo.java applet
demonstrates both AWT components and image maps.
Some browsers won't do this,
because their security model prevents showing a pop-up.
Not a thing the applet can do about it.
Source
- ListenerAdder.java
- A helper class that connects all controls to their controlled code.
- BubbleHelper.java
- Class that manages bubble help or tooltips for AWT components.
- RadioGroup.java
- Class that manages a radio set containing
either CheckImageHelps or Checkboxes.
- Mapping.java
- Just an interface requiring
public String XYToString (int x, int y)
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