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Create a balloon tooltip for a tray item
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//package org.eclipse.swt.snippets;
/*
* Tooltip example snippet: create a balloon tooltip for a tray item
*
* For a list of all SWT example snippets see
* http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
*
* @since 3.2
*/
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Event;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Listener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolTip;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tray;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TrayItem;
public class ToolTipBalloon {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Display display = new Display();
Shell shell = new Shell(display);
Image image = null;
final ToolTip tip = new ToolTip(shell, SWT.BALLOON | SWT.ICON_INFORMATION);
tip.setMessage("Here is a message for the user. When the message is too long it wraps. I should say something cool but nothing comes to my mind.");
Tray tray = display.getSystemTray();
if (tray != null) {
TrayItem item = new TrayItem(tray, SWT.NONE);
image = new Image(display, "yourFile.gif");
item.setImage(image);
tip.setText("Notification from a tray item");
item.setToolTip(tip);
} else {
tip.setText("Notification from anywhere");
tip.setLocation(400, 400);
}
Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
button.setText("Press for balloon tip");
button.addListener(SWT.Selection, new Listener() {
public void handleEvent(Event event) {
tip.setVisible(true);
}
});
button.pack();
shell.setBounds(50, 50, 300, 200);
shell.open();
while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch())
display.sleep();
}
if (image != null)
image.dispose();
display.dispose();
}
}
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