topic MapTip vs. MapTip in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542372#M13851 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey what's the difference between a </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#MapTipWidget">MapTip class</A><SPAN> and a GraphicsLayer's </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/apiref/api_start.htm">MapTip property</A><SPAN>?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Apparently MapTip has a GraphicsLayer property, and a GraphicsLayer has a MapTip property.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I use the MapTip class placed in my XAML, and set its GraphicsLayer property to some Graphic or Feature layer, then I get a cool comic strip-style balloon, but it only shows the Title on mouse hover, and the various attributes you added to the graphic layer on mouse-click.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I use the MapTip property of a GraphicsLayer, I can define my own content, but I don't get the cool balloons.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to get the cool dialog balloons, but still be able to define the content inside of the balloon by my own template?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:48:44 GMT AaronEdwards1 2011-11-08T22:48:44Z MapTip vs. MapTip https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542372#M13851 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey what's the difference between a </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#MapTipWidget">MapTip class</A><SPAN> and a GraphicsLayer's </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/apiref/api_start.htm">MapTip property</A><SPAN>?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Apparently MapTip has a GraphicsLayer property, and a GraphicsLayer has a MapTip property.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I use the MapTip class placed in my XAML, and set its GraphicsLayer property to some Graphic or Feature layer, then I get a cool comic strip-style balloon, but it only shows the Title on mouse hover, and the various attributes you added to the graphic layer on mouse-click.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I use the MapTip property of a GraphicsLayer, I can define my own content, but I don't get the cool balloons.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to get the cool dialog balloons, but still be able to define the content inside of the balloon by my own template?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:48:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542372#M13851 AaronEdwards1 2011-11-08T22:48:44Z Re: MapTip vs. MapTip https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542373#M13852 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I wound up just overriding the template from the MapTip class.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:51:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542373#M13852 AaronEdwards1 2011-11-09T15:51:14Z Re: MapTip vs. MapTip https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542374#M13853 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>If anyone still can tell me the difference between these two classes, that would be great.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm trying to utilize the MapTipBehavior found at </SPAN><A href="http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2010/09/30/How-to-keep-MapTips-in-the-Map.aspx">http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2010/09/30/How-to-keep-MapTips-in-the-Map.aspx</A><SPAN>, but it's the wrong type of MapTip.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:44:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/maptip-vs-maptip/m-p/542374#M13853 AaronEdwards1 2011-11-11T17:44:08Z