Flex Examples
The following example shows how you can use the static ToolTip.maxWidth property in Flex to control the maximum width of a tool tip.
Full code after the jump.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/05/setting-a-flex-tool-tips-maximum-width/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical"
verticalAlign="middle"
backgroundColor="white">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.ToolTip;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
<mx:Label text="ToolTip.maxWidth:" />
<mx:HSlider id="slider"
minimum="50"
maximum="300"
value="{ToolTip.maxWidth}"
liveDragging="true"
snapInterval="5"
tickInterval="10"
dataTipPrecision="0"
change="ToolTip.maxWidth = slider.value" />
<mx:Label text="{slider.value}" />
</mx:ApplicationControlBar>
<mx:Button label="Roll over to see tool tip"
toolTip="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." />
</mx:Application>
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Peter deHaan
Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.
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As i understand, this will change the size of all the tool tips in the program.
is there a way to change this settings just for one tool tip?
Thanks, I needed dataTipPrecision idea in my slider. Could not find it, but you had it. Good work.
yes its possible to change the settings for just one tooltip. you have to create manually a tooltip via ToolTipManager and then set yourtooltip.maxWidth=xxx;
var tip:Tooltip = ToolTipManager.createToolTip(
text,
x,
y,
type
) as ToolTip;
tip.maxWidth=yourvalue;
hope i could help