tooltips support

src/dlangui/core/events.d

@@ -215,6 +215,22 @@ class Action {
 			return null;
 		return _accelerators[0].label;
 	}
+    /// returns tooltip text for action
+    @property dstring tooltipText() {
+        dchar[] buf;
+        // strip out & characters
+        foreach(ch; label) {
+            if (ch != '&')
+                buf ~= ch;
+        }
+        dstring accel = acceleratorText;
+        if (accel.length > 0) {
+            buf ~= " (";
+            buf ~= accel;
+            buf ~= ")";
+        }
+        return cast(dstring)buf;
+    }
     /// adds one more accelerator
     Action addAccelerator(uint keyCode, uint keyFlags = 0) {
         _accelerators ~= Accelerator(keyCode, keyFlags);

src/dlangui/core/i18n.d

@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ struct UIString {
         _value = null;
         return this;
     }
+
+    /// returns true if string is empty: neither resource nor string is assigned
+    bool empty() const {
+        return _value.length == 0 && _id.length == 0;
+    }
+
     /** Default conversion to dstring */
     alias value this;
 }

src/dlangui/platforms/common/platform.d

@@ -252,17 +252,18 @@ class Window {
         _tooltip.timerId = setTimer(ownerWidget, delay);
     }
 
+    /// call when tooltip timer is expired
     private bool onTooltipTimer() {
         _tooltip.timerId = 0;
         if (isChild(_tooltip.ownerWidget)) {
-            Widget w = _tooltip.ownerWidget.createTooltip();
+            Widget w = _tooltip.ownerWidget.createTooltip(_lastMouseX, _lastMouseY, _tooltip.alignment, _tooltip.x, _tooltip.y);
             if (w)
                 showTooltip(w, _tooltip.ownerWidget, _tooltip.alignment, _tooltip.x, _tooltip.y);
         }
         return false;
     }
 
-    /// hide tooltip if shown
+    /// hide tooltip if shown and cancel tooltip timer if set
     void hideTooltip() {
         if (_tooltip.popup) {
             destroy(_tooltip.popup);
@@ -270,6 +271,8 @@ class Window {
             if (_mainWidget)
                 _mainWidget.invalidate();
         }
+        if (_tooltip.timerId)
+            cancelTimer(_tooltip.timerId);
     }
 
     /// show tooltip immediately
@@ -506,6 +509,7 @@ class Window {
     /// dispatch keyboard event
     bool dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {
 		bool res = false;
+        hideTooltip();
         PopupWidget modal = modalPopup();
 		if (event.action == KeyAction.KeyDown || event.action == KeyAction.KeyUp) {
 			_keyboardModifiers = event.flags;
@@ -783,12 +787,18 @@ class Window {
         return false;
     }
 
+    private int _lastMouseX;
+    private int _lastMouseY;
     /// dispatch mouse event to window content widgets
     bool dispatchMouseEvent(MouseEvent event) {
         // ignore events if there is no root
         if (_mainWidget is null)
             return false;
 
+        if (event.action == MouseAction.Move) {
+            _lastMouseX = event.x;
+            _lastMouseY = event.y;
+        }
         hideTooltip();
 
         PopupWidget modal = modalPopup();

src/dlangui/widgets/styles.d

@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ immutable string STYLE_TAB_UP_BUTTON_DARK = "TAB_UP_BUTTON_DARK";
 /// standard style id for tab control tab button text in dock frame
 immutable string STYLE_TAB_UP_BUTTON_DARK_TEXT = "TAB_UP_BUTTON_DARK_TEXT";
 
+/// standard style id for tooltip popup
+immutable string STYLE_TOOLTIP = "TOOLTIP";
+
+
 /// standard style id for toolbars layout
 immutable string STYLE_TOOLBAR_HOST = "TOOLBAR_HOST";
 /// standard style id for toolbars

src/dlangui/widgets/toolbars.d

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class ToolBarImageButton : ImageButton {
         styleId = STYLE_TOOLBAR_BUTTON;
         focusable = false;
     }
+    mixin ActionTooltipSupport;
 }
 
 /// separator for toolbars
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ class ToolBarComboBox : ComboBox {
         if (items.length > 0)
             selectedItemIndex = 0;
     }
+    mixin ActionTooltipSupport;
 }
 
 /// Layout with buttons

src/dlangui/widgets/widget.d

@@ -683,15 +683,16 @@ class Widget {
     }
 
     /// returns true if widget has tooltip to show
-    bool hasTooltip() {
+    @property bool hasTooltip() {
         return false;
     }
-    /// will be called from window once tooltip request timer expired
+    /// will be called from window once tooltip request timer expired; if null is returned, popup will not be shown; you can change alignment and position of popup here
-    Widget createTooltip() {
+    Widget createTooltip(int mouseX, int mouseY, ref uint alignment, ref int x, ref int y) {
         return null;
     }
+
     /// schedule tooltip
-    void scheduleTooltip(long delay = 300, uint alignment = 2 /*PopupAlign.Below*/, int x = 0, int y = 0) {
+    protected void scheduleTooltip(long delay = 300, uint alignment = 2 /*PopupAlign.Below*/, int x = 0, int y = 0) {
         if (auto w = window)
             w.scheduleTooltip(this, delay, alignment, x, y);
     }
@@ -1106,6 +1107,9 @@ class Widget {
 	            return true;
 	        }
 		}
+        if (event.action == MouseAction.Move && event.flags == 0 && hasTooltip) {
+            scheduleTooltip(200);
+        }
 		if (event.action == MouseAction.ButtonDown && event.button == MouseButton.Right) {
 			if (canShowPopupMenu(event.x, event.y)) {
 				showPopupMenu(event.x, event.y);
@@ -1553,3 +1557,21 @@ struct AnimationHelper {
         return _timeElapsed >= _maxInterval; 
     }
 }
+
+
+/// mixin this to widget class to support tooltips based on widget's action label
+mixin template ActionTooltipSupport() {
+    /// returns true if widget has tooltip to show
+    override @property bool hasTooltip() {
+        if (!_action || _action.labelValue.empty)
+            return false;
+        return true;
+    }
+    /// will be called from window once tooltip request timer expired; if null is returned, popup will not be shown; you can change alignment and position of popup here
+    override Widget createTooltip(int mouseX, int mouseY, ref uint alignment, ref int x, ref int y) {
+        Widget res = new TextWidget("tooltip", _action.tooltipText);
+        res.styleId = STYLE_TOOLTIP;
+        return res;
+    }
+}
+

views/res/theme_default.xml

@@ -300,6 +300,14 @@
         layoutHeight="WRAP_CONTENT"
         padding="1,1,1,1"
         />
+    <style id="TOOLTIP"
+        backgroundImageId="tooltip_background"
+        layoutWidth="WRAP_CONTENT"
+        layoutHeight="WRAP_CONTENT"
+        margins="2,7,2,1"
+        padding="3,3,3,3"
+	textColor="#404040"
+        />
     <style id="TOOLBAR"
         backgroundImageId="toolbar_background"
         layoutWidth="WRAP_CONTENT"

views/standard_resources.list

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ res/mdpi/toolbar_button_pressed.9.png
 res/mdpi/toolbar_control_disabled.9.png
 res/mdpi/toolbar_control_normal.9.png
 res/mdpi/toolbar_separator.png
+res/mdpi/tooltip_background.9.png
 res/mdpi/user-home.png
 res/menu_item_background.xml
 res/popup_menu_background_normal.9.png