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Swing Component Tool Tips 3

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cpope

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I am trying to add a tool tip to my swing components, but the \n for a newline displays a square icon instead of breaking to a new line. Is there a way to display tool tip text on multiple lines?

 
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Try it with HTML formatting, and don't forget about the surrounding <html> tags:

<html>this text<br>is multiline</html>
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It worked great! Thanks! I was unable to find this information online, so thank you again ! I voted you for TipMaster of the week

 
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Does this work for JLabels as well? I seem to be having problems.

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Actually forget it, I didn't realise the html tags were case sensitive in Java. I cahnged the html tags to lower case and it now works. So for that Haslo gets another star....kerching!::)
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In general, tooltips should be VERY SHORT; a couple of words, let alone a whole sentence. If you are finding yourself using multi-line tooltips, you are probably using them for the wrong purpose.

Just my 0.02...
 
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Basically using a multi-line tooltip to avoid having to create an entire user manual for a simple application... So each field has a one to two line description of what to type / or select in the field, and when to apply certain criteria.... It is not really a &quot;tool-tip&quot; in the Microsoft sense, but it satisfies the purpose :)
 
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The reason why my html formatting wouldn't work originally on my home pc is because I was running 1.2.1. It did work on my office PC however (it has 1.2.2) so it appears that html formatting has only been included since 1.2.2.

I do not know how widely known this is - maybe I should have read the release notes. But anyway, worth pointing out as it has caused me a bit of hassle
 
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