A tooltip workaround hack needed ;)

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A tooltip workaround hack needed ;)

Postby Sponge » Fri Dec 16, 2005 19:26

Hi,

I want to use CEGUI as much as possible in my game so I don't end up using all kinds of extra font rasterizers and everything. Right now I got a silly problem with the tooltips. They show up allright, and it looks fine.

Except, I want to display them in the game window. Now, the default behavior for a tooltip is NOT to show up more than once if the mouse stays over the same button/picture/whatever. Unfortunately, this also applies to the root window.

right now, to have the tooltip appear twice, I first need to move the mouse out of my game window, to a different window (a toolbar), and move back.

I've tried (and failed):

- resetTimer();
- Changing target window to NULL, and back
- Changing the window tooltiptext to "" when there is NO unit under the mouse cursor.

Like this:

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..for..

            //Only update when necassary
            if (wdw->getTooltipText() != tmp)
               wdw->setTooltipText(tmp);

            //We had a hit!
            bHit = true;
.. loop ..


      //no hit? remove text:
      if (bHit == false)
      {
         //If the tooltip text string is not empty, do that right now and reset timer.
         //if (wdw->getTooltipText() != "")
      //   {
      //      wdw->setTooltipText("");
            Tooltip* pbar = static_cast<Tooltip*>(winMgr.getWindow("Tooltip"));      
            pbar->resetTimer();
      //      pbar->setTargetWindow(NULL);
      //      pbar->setTargetWindow(wdw);
      //   }
      }


Unfortunately, all my attempts have failed at the moment. Ofcourse I can use a statictext object. Ofcourse I can creat my own Tooltip object in CEGUI. But I rather not, since everytime I update to the new versions, I miht have to sort things out again.

Anyone have an interesting 'hack' to fix my problem?

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