I am trying to get a tooltip to work, in an XP environment, for a text-input- pane. Yet when I try something like... (capi:display-tooltip (slot-value MyDialog 'MyFooPane) :x 1 :y 1 :text "Test") It comes back with a error. I'm not sure if I'm going about this all wrong and simply need to change some property on the pane or if display-tooltip is correct but my syntax is my issue. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, William
Hi William, as far as I understand, display-tooltip only works on output-pane and it's children which are editor-pane and pinboard-layout plus their children. You cannot use it with text-input-pane. My impression is, you cannot have a tooltip with text-input-pane (I didn't find a solution, but I'm not perfectly sure). Regards Andreas > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-lisp-hug@lispworks.com > [mailto:owner-lisp-hug@lispworks.com] On Behalf Of William Proffitt > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:12 AM > To: lisp-hug@lispworks.com > Subject: Question regarding tooltips > > > > I am trying to get a tooltip to work, in an XP environment, > for a text-input- pane. Yet when I try something like... > > (capi:display-tooltip (slot-value MyDialog 'MyFooPane) :x 1 > :y 1 :text "Test") > > It comes back with a error. I'm not sure if I'm going about > this all wrong and > simply need to change some property on the pane or if > display-tooltip is > correct but my syntax is my issue. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > > William >
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:11:58PM +0000, William Proffitt wrote: > I am trying to get a tooltip to work, in an XP environment, for a > text-input-pane. Yet when I try something like... > > (capi:display-tooltip (slot-value MyDialog 'MyFooPane) :x 1 :y 1 > :text "Test") > > It comes back with a error. I'm not sure if I'm going about this all > wrong and simply need to change some property on the pane or if > display-tooltip is correct but my syntax is my issue. The capi:interface documentation has an example of a tooltip on a text-input-pane, if that helps. It doesn't use display-tooltip specifically, though, so it might not be what you want. Help -> Search -> tooltip may've helped with this. In actuality, I used cd /usr/local/lib/LispWorks/lib/5-1-0-0/manual/online/web/CAPRM/html opera $(grep -irl tooltip *) which is sort of a brute-force version of the same thing, though it *might* find things a search of the index or contents (which is what Help -> Search does) wouldn't. Also, note that display-tooltip is a generic function. You could write your own method for text-input-panes. -- L