UI Components

Tooltips

For displaying tooltips on UI elements linkki provides the annotation @UITooltip. This annotation can be added in the PMO binding to the method to which the UI element is bound. In the case of binding using the @Bind annotation, @UITooltip musst be written directly in the field annotated with @Bind.

The @UITooltip annotation has two properties:

Text

This is the text displayed on ToolTipType.STATIC. Its default value is an empty string ("").

ToolTipType

The following configuration options are available for ToolTipType:

Table 1. ToolTipType

STATIC

the text of the tooltip is read from the attribute text (default)

DYNAMIC

the text of the tooltip is determined by the return value of the method String get<PropertyName>ToolTip(). The value of text is ignored.
Tooltips can only be added to fields and buttons.