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Hi

I'm interested in designing a tooltip like a callout box you can
find in Windows' systray or eclipse. I would like to use it primarily
for giving hints or notifications to users for certain controls. The
only way I can think of doing this is either by writing a custom
TooltipUI or doing some fancy things with the glasspane. Anyone here
have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:07:10 +0100, <> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm interested in designing a tooltip like a callout box you can
> find in Windows' systray or eclipse. I would like to use it primarily
> for giving hints or notifications to users for certain controls. The
> only way I can think of doing this is either by writing a custom
> TooltipUI or doing some fancy things with the glasspane. Anyone here
> have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance


If you can use Java 6.0 (which is currently in beta), you might be able to
use the new desktop and systray functionality.

See
http://java.sun.com/developer/techni...ng/systemtray/,
specifically the displayMessage method of the TrayIcon class.

Dan.

--
Daniel Dyer
http://www.dandyer.co.uk

Daniel Dyer wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:07:10 +0100, <> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm interested in designing a tooltip like a callout box you can
> > find in Windows' systray or eclipse. I would like to use it primarily
> > for giving hints or notifications to users for certain controls. The
> > only way I can think of doing this is either by writing a custom
> > TooltipUI or doing some fancy things with the glasspane. Anyone here
> > have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>
> If you can use Java 6.0 (which is currently in beta), you might be able to
> use the new desktop and systray functionality.
>
> See
> http://java.sun.com/developer/techni...ng/systemtray/,
> specifically the displayMessage method of the TrayIcon class.
>
> Dan.
>
> --
> Daniel Dyer
> http://www.dandyer.co.uk


I believe java 6.0 uses OS-specific syscalls to accomplish that. I'm
looking for a way to have balloon tooltips that attach themselves to
components. After doing more research, the possibility of using
J/Window won't work because it can't be transparent. So I'm still left
with either TooltipUI or glasspane... I found a link on google to a
JBalloonTooltip that seems to be dead, supposedly it did use native
syscalls and probably works on windows only.