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  • Tooltip of a Tab control
  • Tooltip associated with a Radio Button and/or Check Box control
  • Tooltip associated with an element in a Breadcrumb control
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Stored procedures
The ToolTip property is used to get and change the text displayed in the tooltip associated with a window or page control.
Reminder: To type the message displayed in the tooltip of a control in the editor:
  1. Open the control description window (select "Description" in the context menu).
  2. In the "Help" tab, in the "Tooltip" area, type the text of the tooltip.
    Remarks:
    • In a multilingual application, the text of the tooltip can be typed in several languages.
Example
WEBDEV - Server codeAjax
// Change the text of the tooltip for the element 2
// in a Breadcrumb control
SMP_Breadcrumb[2].ToolTip = "New tooltip"
Syntax

Finding out the text of the tooltip Hide the details

<Tooltip text> = <Control used>.ToolTip
<Tooltip text>: Character string
Current text of tooltip associated with the control.
Remark: If the text of the tooltip is in RTF, the text returned will contain the RTF tags.
<Control used>: Control name
Name of the control for which the text of the tooltip is requested.

Modifying the text of the tooltip Hide the details

<Control used>.ToolTip = <New tooltip text>
<Control used>: Control name
Name of the control for which the text of the tooltip must be modified.
<New tooltip text>: Character string
New text for the tooltip associated with the control. If this text corresponds to an empty string (""), no tooltip will be displayed for this control.
Remarks
WEBDEV - Server code

Tooltip of a Tab control

For the Tab controls, a tooltip can be defined for each one of the tab panes.
WEBDEV - Server codePHP

Tooltip associated with a Radio Button and/or Check Box control

A tooltip can be defined for the control and for each option. For example:
RADIO_MyRadioButton[1].ToolTip = "Option #1"
WEBDEV - Server codeAjax

Tooltip associated with an element in a Breadcrumb control

For Breadcrumb controls, the tooltip of each element in the path is defined:
The ToolTip property is used to get and change the tooltip of each element of the breadcrumbs. For example:
SMP_MyBreadcrumb[1].ToolTip = "Tooltip element 1"
WEBDEV - Browser code

Limitations

WEBDEV - Browser code The ToolTip property must be modified before the control hover event to take advantage of the "Tooltip (CSS)" format.
Minimum version required
  • Version 9
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Last update: 10/31/2023

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