Can I show a tooltip for datagrid cells?

[Roger Eller]

Thank you Craig. I have just put the finishing touches on a new
application which uses two simple datagrids.  For all their pretty
alternating row color allure, they sure are a pain to work with.

~Roger


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Roger.
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> Sure you can, but datagrids are complex.
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> You can "set the toolTip of field "col 1 0001" to "whatever"
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> and the tip will appear when you hover over the first field of the first
> column. This is the default name schema of fields in datagrids, and those
> names can be changed.
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> But when editing, a separate "phantom" field is created on the fly at the
> rect of the field to be edited, and this will hamper the tip from showing,
> because the phantom overlies it, so the tooltip will not be invoked.
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> All this is manageable, I guess, The name of the editing field is
> "dataGridFieldEditor", and you could have that field's toolTip reflect the
> underlying field.
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> Craig Newman