show-tooltip

Generic Function

Package: common-graphics

Arguments: widget

This generic function is called internally to show the tooltip of a control. This function is not normally called by an application, but wrapper methods may be added to hook into when a tooltip is invoked after the mouse pauses over a control. This may be useful, for example, for displaying some other form of help after the mouse has paused over a control.

Note that this generic function is called even if the show-tooltipsshow-tooltips configuration option has been turned off. This allows showing some custom form of help for a control without using tooltips, which may be handy if tooltips are considered more annoying than a status-bar message, for example.

See also hide-tooltip.

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