Displaying tool-tips on hover over Feathers UI components
In desktop apps, users expect to be able to hover their mouse over a UI component to display a tool-tip with some descriptive text about the component.
Enabling the Tool-Tip Manager
Feathers UI automatically enables tool-tip support when your main class extends the Application component.
import feathers.controls.Application;
class MyProject extends Application {
public function new() {
super();
}
}
However, if a project isn't using the Application component, tool-tip support may be enabled manually by calling ToolTipManager.addRoot() when the project first starts up.
// only when not using the Application component
ToolTipManager.addRoot(stage);
Setting a component's tool-tip
In the following example, a Button is given a tool-tip.
var button = new Button();
button.text = "Click Me";
button.toolTip = "Some useful information";
addChild(button);
All Feathers UI components have a toolTip property.