Comments on: Additional uicontrol tooltip hacks

By: Maxandre

Maxandre — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:44:10 +0000

I would like to add that if you want to have the tooltip string displayed for the maximum amount of time (i.e. disappear in a very long time), do:

tm = javax.swing.ToolTipManager.sharedInstance; %static method to get ToolTipManager object
long_time_to_disappear = intmax('int32'); %anything more than that will fail, because it seems that DismissDelay is typed as a signed 32-bit integer
javaMethodEDT('setDismissDelay',tm,long_time_to_disappear); %set the dismiss delay to max_int_32, around 2 million seconds

By: Maxandre

Maxandre — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:33:30 +0000

Thank you very much for this tip on how to modify the tooltip timeout on matlab ! It help me a lot for my GUI.

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By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:26:52 +0000

In reply to ZHANJIE.

@Zhanjie – you can easily convert your editbox into a listbox, and you already have a solution for that…

By: ZHANJIE

ZHANJIE — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:58:50 +0000

I want to show tooltips for multi-line editbox. There are several rows in the box (vector with different length). My goal is when I move the mouse on certain row, I am able to show something like: ‘this is the 3rd row’. I notice you can do this for listbox. Is there anyway I can do it for edit box.
Thanks a lot!

By: John Marcovici

John Marcovici — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:26:34 +0000

I had previously notice that tooltips did not display for “edit” boxes that were disabled. This frustrated me because I wanted to use the “edit” style (nicely bordered boxes) for static text only, but I needed tooltips too. Looks a good solution… thanks for posting.