{"id":60,"date":"2008-09-17T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interactive-developer.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2018-05-08T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:31:17","slug":"combobox-list-tooltip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/combobox-list-tooltip\/","title":{"rendered":"ComboBox List ToolTip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComboBox is a very common component used in many projects, what if we can extend its features?<br \/>\nThe following example creates a custom tooltip for each item in the DropDown List, data provider for these tips can be set in the ComboBox dataProvider as follows:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"actionscript3\">[Bindable] private var comboProvider:Array = [\r\n    {label:\"item 1\", data:{tip:\"bla bla bla ..\"}},\r\n    {label:\"item 2\", data:{tip:\"bla bla ..\"}},\r\n    {label:\"item 3\", data:{tip:\"bla bla bla bla ..\"}}\r\n    ];<\/pre>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/combotip\/\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/combotip\/combotip.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/combotip\/combotip.swf\" base=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/combotip\/\" scale=\"noscale\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>source code available via flash context menu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next step is to implement custom controls to make this ToolTip interactive by adding some like &#8220;rename&#8221; and &#8220;delete&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get back to you soon with another example<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComboBox is a very common component used in many projects, what if we can extend its features? The following example creates a custom tooltip for each item in the DropDown List, data provider for these tips can be set in the ComboBox dataProvider as follows: [Bindable] private var comboProvider:Array = [ {label:&#8221;item 1&#8243;, data:{tip:&#8221;bla bla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[3,10,13,11,12],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","category-sep","tag-actionscript","tag-combobox","tag-dropdown","tag-list","tag-tooltip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}