tooltip example

[hulksmash]

Can anyone provide a clean tooltip example? I want to create a tooltip when you mouse over button texture. I want it to look very similar if not exactly like the tooltips when you navigate the tabs in your inventory and bank. I just want a clean simple box with text inside it. I started making one from scratch but then saw some tooltip controls in the wiki that I couldn't make sense of. I dont want to use any .xml files.

[ingeniousclown]

Take a look at my Advanced Filters addon, specifically the file "AdvancedFilterGroups.lua". It's pretty simple once you find the correct line (don't have line numbers off the top of my head).

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by hulksmash Can anyone provide a clean tooltip example? I want to create a tooltip when you mouse over button texture. I want it to look very similar if not exactly like the tooltips when you navigate the tabs in your inventory and bank. I just want a clean simple box with text inside it. I started making one from scratch but then saw some tooltip controls in the wiki that I couldn't make sense of. I dont want to use any .xml files.

local function ShowTooltip(self)
   --InitializeTooltip(tooltipControl, [owner, point, offsetX, offsetY, relativePoint])
   InitializeTooltip(InformationTooltip, self, TOPRIGHT, 0, 5, BOTTOMRIGHT)
   --SetTooltipText(tooltipControl, text, [r, g, b])
   SetTooltipText(InformationTooltip, "Some text")
   --or you can use:
   --tooltipControl:AddLine(text, [font, r, g, b, lineAnchor, modifyTextType, textAlignment, setToFullSize]), default font = ""
   --tooltipControl:AddVerticalPadding(offsetY)
end
 
local function HideTooltip(self)
   --ClearTooltip(tooltipControl)
   ClearTooltip(InformationTooltip)
end
 
yourControl:SetHandler("OnMouseEnter", function(self) ShowTooltip(self) end)
yourControl:SetHandler("OnMouseExit", function(self) HideTooltip(self) end)

[Seerah]

I just use the default UI code to do it for me.

Say I want a tooltip for a button...

button.tooltipText = "My tooltip text!"
button:SetHandler("OnMouseEnter", ZO_Options_OnMouseEnter)
button:SetHandler("OnMouseExit", ZO_Options_OnMouseExit)

[Kentarii]

Another one, just to give you more to choose from:

--- Add a tooltip to a control.
-- @param ctrl the control element.
-- @param text the text to show on mouse over.
-- @return void
local function SetToolTip(ctrl, text)
    ctrl:SetHandler("OnMouseEnter", function(self)
        ZO_Tooltips_ShowTextTooltip(self, TOP, text)
    end)
    ctrl:SetHandler("OnMouseExit", function(self)
        ZO_Tooltips_HideTextTooltip()
    end)
end