Showing an image in Tool Tip
This section illustrates how to show an image in
tool tip. One example is given below for illustration.
This program shows a command button. When you move the
mouse pointer around the button then a tool tip text will be seen with an image.
Through the help of this example you can easily attach an image with the tool
tip text.
Screen shot for the result of the given program:
In this program, some html tags are using for showing
the tool tip text with an image. These html tags are understood by using HTML
class from the javax.swing.text.html.*; package of Java Swing. Here
tooltiptext is the string variable which contains several text. Html tags are
also included. This code uses the <img> tag of html which calls the image
which has to be shown with the tool tip text.
Here is the code of the program:
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class ImageToolTip{
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Image Tool Tip Frame");
JComponent button = new JButton("Cut");
String tooltiptext = "<html>" + "This is the " + "<img src=\"file:cut.gif\">"
+ " tool tip text." + "</html>";
button.setToolTipText(tooltiptext);
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.add(button);
frame.add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(400, 400);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
}
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