As Amy says, DataTipFunction gets passed the entire item object. It can also access data elsewhere in scope.
Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manu Dhanda Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Custom Tooltip I am asking to pass an object to a ToolTip rather then only a String. Does anyone have any direction on that?? Thanks. Amy-28 wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , Manu Dhanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> ok, for an example, I have a row in the list. >> And for it's tooltip, >> I want to display various characteristics (which I have in the form > of >> name/value pairs in a list). >> Does that give you an idea?? >> >> ---row1 >> ---row2 (ToolTip)[has a name/value list, which can be represented > as a >> tooltip] >> --- >> ---rowN >> >> So, my concern of passing an Object to Tooltip is passing anything > that can >> be an Object as in ArrayCollection/Array/String/int/image etc.. > > I think you may be interested in the dataTipFunction property that > all of the List based components have. You can set this up to use > the data in the current item to look up any information available to > the program. > > HTH; > > Amy > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Custom-Tooltip-tp19953678p19965996.html <http://www.nabble.com/Custom-Tooltip-tp19953678p19965996.html> Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
