topic Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

Change DrawTool Tooltip

JoseSousa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:29:22 GMT

Dear ArcGIS API Flex Team,

How can I change the default DrawTool tooltip?
For instance, for extent is: "press down to start and let go to finish" ...

Thanks advanced,

José Sousa

Change DrawTool Tooltip

BjornSvensson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:04 GMT

Is it so that you can translate them?
We are planning to provide localization kits/instructions for the API.

Change DrawTool Tooltip

JoseSousa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:48:49 GMT

🙂

It will solve my problem.

Thanks a lot,

José Sousa
ESRI Portugal

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

FabioSantos — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:02:50 GMT

Hi there,

I can't find into the API where I could change that message.

Could you show me?

Thanks,
Fabio Santos
Petrobras Brazil

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:07:20 GMT

Bjorn,

I would like to see the tooltip customizable for more than just internationalization. I would like to add different text based on my custom action I am using the drawtool for.

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

FabioSantos — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:12:51 GMT

Sorry. I solved that problem changing the FlexViwer 2.1 core. 😉

Thanks,
Fabio Santos
Petrobras Salvador/Brazil

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

BjornSvensson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:27:07 GMT

I would like to see the tooltip customizable for more than just internationalization. I would like to add different text based on my custom action I am using the drawtool for.

@Robert, we have this as an enhancement request. Not sure yet if it's going to make it in to version 2.2 or not.

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

TonyCollins — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:27:02 GMT

@Robert, we have this as an enhancement request. Not sure yet if it's going to make it in to version 2.2 or not.

Any news on this?

Would it be possible to override this if not?

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

sreekanthreddy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:02:30 GMT

We can change DrawTool tooltip as per our requirement(Replacing default tooltip).I finished this as follows,
step 1: set property showDrawTips = "false" for u r DrawTool.
step 2: Handle the following method on mouseMove event of esrp Map.
          private var myToolTip:ToolTip;
         protected function showCursorToolTip(event:MouseEvent):void
{

if(myToolTip==null)
{
      myToolTip = ToolTipManager.createToolTip("<Your custom tool tip>", stage.mouseX, stage.mouseY) as ToolTip;
}
if(myToolTip !=null)
{
   if(stage != null)
   {
    myToolTip.x=stage.mouseX;
    myToolTip.y=stage.mouseY;
   }
}

}

step 3: destroy this tool tip where ever u want(Usually we can destroy on DrawTool end handler).
           like as follows.
           ToolTipManager.destroyToolTip(myToolTip);
    myToolTip=null;

I hope this helps to guys.

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

TonyCollins — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:05:00 GMT

We can change DrawTool tooltip as per our requirement(Replacing default tooltip).I finished this as follows,
step 1: set property showDrawTips = "false" for u r DrawTool.
step 2: Handle the following method on mouseMove event of esrp Map.
          private var myToolTip:ToolTip;
         protected function showCursorToolTip(event:MouseEvent):void
{

if(myToolTip==null)
{
      myToolTip = ToolTipManager.createToolTip("<Your custom tool tip>", stage.mouseX, stage.mouseY) as ToolTip;
}
if(myToolTip !=null)
{
   if(stage != null)
   {
    myToolTip.x=stage.mouseX;
    myToolTip.y=stage.mouseY;
   }
}

}

step 3: destroy this tool tip where ever u want(Usually we can destroy on DrawTool end handler).
           like as follows.
           ToolTipManager.destroyToolTip(myToolTip);
    myToolTip=null;

I hope this helps to guys.

Thanks for that, that works fine.

I was wondering if there were any events in the drawTool (can't see any) to monitor the polyline as it is being moved around. So I can start a custom tooltip when the drawing starts and apply some maths to get the length of the line (just in pixels for now) so It will show as the line is being dragged about?

Thanks again

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

YohanBienvenue — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:46:51 GMT

Is this now possible with the 3.5 API, other then the solution suggested by kanthsrkesri?

Just like rscheitlin says we are using the DrawTools for a custom selection in the map, and the default tooltip text does not describe at all what they are really used for.

Thanks

Re: Beta 10: Change DrawTool Tooltip

BjornSvensson — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:46:02 GMT

Is this now possible with the 3.5 API...?

No, but it (the ability to customize map tips when using the Draw tool) will be part of our upcoming 3.6 release in December.