Question

I am implementing a MVC and I want to have a JToolTip on a JLabel in my view. I succeeded but now I want to set the dismiss and initial timer.

I read the Javadoc for JToolTip and TollTipManager. I found what I want in ToolTipManager but now I can’t understand how to use it.

JToolTip doesn’t have a setter for ToolTipManager and in the doc they said:

Manages all the ToolTips in the system.

I don’t really understand how I should use ToolTipManager. Should my View extend ToolTipManager or am I mislead?

Answer 1

ToolTipManager is a singleton. To use it, you need to call a static sharedInstance method that returns the instance of this class.

ToolTipManager manages all tooltips – it is a global configuration class, changes made to the sharedInstance will be applied to every tooltip in your application.