A few weeks ago I posted some code to do tooltips. I now have a new version that is more intelligent about placing the tooltip.

Nobody responded to my previous message so I'm wondering if anyone is interested in this. It's not particularly "CLIM-y" I suppose.

Anyway here it is. It does show up some issues with McCLIM's erasing and drawing stuff. For example, if you compile this code and the three test functions, then run (clim-demo::demodemo) and run the border styles test, you'll see that the drawing locations are all screwed up. However, if you run the address book you'll see that it looks OK there, but if you enlarge the address book window so that you can see the whole tool tip and move your mouse around, you'll see that it leaves turds.

This doesn't happen with Allegro Clim.

I've noticed issues with McCLIM's erasing stuff before. Running Abigail, for example, and running the test function from the menu, it leaves all kinds of cruft on the screen that it doesn't in Allegro.

I bring this up just to inform people who might (or might not) want to fix it.

Tooltip code:

;;; -*- Mode: Common-Lisp -*-

;;; Use tooltips with CLIM presentations ;;; Copyright (C) 2007 SRI International. ;;; ;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public ;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;; version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;;; Library General Public License for more details.

;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public ;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the ;;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;;; Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

;;============================= CLIM Tooltips =============================== ;; Written by Suzanne Paley. ;; To use tooltips w/ clim presentations, define after methods for the clim ;; presentation-method clim:highlight-presentation. When the state argument ;; is :highlight, the method should call draw-tooltip. When the state ;; argument is :unhighlight, the method should call erase-tooltip. Here's ;; a sample call (which assumes the fn get-tooltip-text returns a string ;; or NIL): ;; ;;;(clim:define-presentation-method clim:highlight-presentation :after ;;; ((type t) record stream (state (eql :highlight))) ;;; (draw-tooltip stream (get-tooltip-text record) ;;; :region (orec-relative->absolute-region record stream))) ;;; ;;;(clim:define-presentation-method clim:highlight-presentation :after ;;; ((type t) record stream (state (eql :unhighlight))) ;;; (declare (ignore record)) ;;; (erase-tooltip stream) ;;; ) ;; ;; At some point, we may want to extend the tooltip functionality to allow ;; for arbitrary output w/in a tooltip (i.e. not just a string, maybe ;; graphics too).

(defvar *tooltip-textstyle* (clim:make-text-style :sans-serif :roman :very-small))

;; Once an application frame has been initialized, an application will ;; probably want to change this color to something more appealing! (defvar *tooltip-color* clim:+yellow+)

(defvar *tooltip-orec* nil)

;; ============================================================= draw-tooltip ;; [API] ;; Description : Draw a box containing text, to be used as a tooltip. ;; Either a region or x- and y-coordinates should be supplied. ;; If coordinates are supplied, the box will have its upper left ;; corner at that position. If no coordinates are supplied but a clim ;; region is, the box will be positioned close to that region, but not ;; overlapping it. Currently it is displayed immediately below the region, ;; but this should be changed to ensure that the entire box is positioned ;; within the viewport. If no position and no region are supplied, the box ;; is drawn at (0,0). We actually output the text twice, once ;; to compute its size and the second time to actually render it -- we ;; may be able to make this more efficient. ;; ;; Arguments : stream: the clim stream to output to ;; text: a string or NIL ;; region: a clim region (optional) -- the tooltip should be ;; positioned near this region. ;; x,y: integers (optional) -- if supplied, the tooltip will ;; have its upper left corner at this position. ;; text-render-fn: A function, defaulting to clim:draw-text*, ;; used to render the text. Must the same arguments ;; as clim:draw-text*. ;; Returns : nothing ;; Side Effects : sets *tooltip-orec* ;; Update History : gilham:Jul-10-2007 More intelligent positioning of tooltip.

(defun draw-tooltip (stream text &key region x y (text-render-fn #'clim:draw-text*)) (erase-tooltip stream) ;; clear previous tooltip, if there is one (when (and text (not (equal text ""))) (clim:with-drawing-options (stream :text-style *tooltip-textstyle* :ink clim:+black+) (let ((margin 2)) (multiple-value-bind (wd ht) (clim:bounding-rectangle-size (clim:with-output-to-output-record (stream) (funcall text-render-fn stream text 0 0))) (setf *tooltip-orec* (clim:with-output-recording-options (stream :draw nil :record t) (clim:with-new-output-record (stream) (clim:draw-rectangle* stream (- margin) (- margin) (+ wd margin) (+ ht margin) :ink *tooltip-color*) (clim:draw-rectangle* stream (- margin) (- margin) (+ wd margin) (+ ht margin) :filled nil) (funcall text-render-fn stream text 0 0 :align-x :left :align-y :top) ))) (when (and region (not (and x y))) ;; We may want to get smarter about positioning of the tooltip (multiple-value-setq (x y) (clim:stream-pointer-position stream)) (if (and x y) (let* ((viewport-br (clim:window-viewport stream)) (viewport-max-x (clim:bounding-rectangle-max-x viewport-br)) (viewport-min-x (clim:bounding-rectangle-min-x viewport-br)) (viewport-max-y (clim:bounding-rectangle-max-y viewport-br)) (viewport-min-y (clim:bounding-rectangle-min-y viewport-br)) (tooltip-max-x (clim:bounding-rectangle-max-x *tooltip-orec*)) (tooltip-max-y (clim:bounding-rectangle-max-y *tooltip-orec*)) ) ;; Get the tool tip clear of the pointer. (setf x (+ x 10) y (- y 10 tooltip-max-y)) ;; Try to keep the tool tip in the viewport. (when (> (+ x tooltip-max-x) viewport-max-x) (decf x (+ (- (+ x tooltip-max-x) viewport-max-x) margin)) (when (< x viewport-min-x) (setf x viewport-min-x))) (when (< y viewport-min-y) (incf y 40) (when (> y viewport-max-y) (setf y (- viewport-max-y tooltip-max-y))) )) (setq x (or x 0) y (or y 0)))) )) (setf (clim:output-record-position *tooltip-orec*) (values x y)) (clim:tree-recompute-extent *tooltip-orec*) (clim:replay *tooltip-orec* stream) )))

;; Erase a tooltip drawn by draw-tooltip ;; Side Effects : sets *tooltip-orec* to nil (defun erase-tooltip (stream) (when *tooltip-orec* (clim:erase-output-record *tooltip-orec* stream nil) (setf *tooltip-orec* nil) ))

;; ============================================ orec-relative->absolute-region ;; [API] ;; Description : Given an output record, return a clim ;; region that reflects its actual position in the window. ;; Arguments : orec: an output-record ;; stream: the stream on which orec was displayed ;; Returns : a clim region ;; Side Effects : none ;; Update History :

(defun orec-relative->absolute-region (orec stream) (multiple-value-bind (xoff yoff) #+mcclim (climi::convert-from-relative-to-absolute-coordinates stream orec) #-mcclim (clim:convert-from-relative-to-absolute-coordinates stream orec) (clim:transform-region (clim:make-translation-transformation xoff yoff) orec)))

;;; ;;; Test code ;;; #|| (clim:define-presentation-method clim:highlight-presentation :after ((type t) record stream (state (eql :highlight))) (unless (eq type 'clim:blank-area) (draw-tooltip stream (get-tooltip-text record) :region (orec-relative->absolute-region record stream))))

(clim:define-presentation-method clim:highlight-presentation :after ((type t) record stream (state (eql :unhighlight))) (declare (ignore record)) (unless (eq type 'clim:blank-area) (erase-tooltip stream) ))

(defun get-tooltip-text (record) ;; (declare (ignore record)) ;; "This is a tooltip!" (format nil "~A" record) ) ||#