Show Tree widget row contents on hover?

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks for responding Henry. 

I did try that property when I found no hover capability on the Tree widget. I set the widget to read-only and scripted...
on actionInspect pPath

	put the arrayData of widget "Tree" into aContent

	replace comma with "][" in pPath

	answer aContent & "[" & pPath & "]"

end actionInspect

…however, like the highlightedElement property, this still returns the element’s key rather than its content, despite my feeble attempts at post-processing.

Hence the second part of my question which reveals my lack of array syntax knowledge! :)
Best,
Keith    

> On 23 Apr 2021, at 17:35, HENRY LOWE via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Keith,
> 
> Take a look at the widget’s ActionInspect message. 
> 
> The actionInspect message is sent to the widget's script object when the inspect icon is clicked on.
> The inspect icon appears when the value string of a particular array element contains a newline character,
> OR if it is too large to fit in the space provided. The pPath parameter contains the path to the element whose icon was clicked.
> 
> Use the ActionInspect pPath message to get the array element and then use a contextual menu to display the truncated element (tElement):
> 
> set the text of btn “TreeView_Contextual_Menu" to tElement
> popup button “TreeView_Contextual_Menu"
> 
> This requires the user to click on the inspect icon of the truncated array element element to display the full element.
> 
> I agree that it would be nice to do this with a hover.
> 
> Henry
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2021, at 9:10 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> I’m experimenting with a tree widget and indentation means that row content gets truncated, so I’m wondering if there is any simple way to show the current row’s content in a tooltip on hover?
>> 
>> The dictionary doesn’t mention any mouse-related messages and the highlightedElement property returns a path as a comma-delimited list of array keys but not the row’s content.
>> 
>> Am I missing some LiveCode magic here that’s too obvious to document?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Keith 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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