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In OutlineView, the tooltip in a property column (i.e., the table part of the OutlineView) the tooltip displays the value, which is meaningless, since that is already displayed in the cell. It should be possible to configure whether nothing should be shown or use the short description of the property.
Created attachment 109184 [details] Patch providing new client property for OutlineView tooltip Usage: outlineView.getOutline().putClientProperty("PropertyToolTipShortDescription", Boolean.TRUE); // Use bean short description as the tooltip. (default false) outlineView.getOutline().putClientProperty("PropertyToolTipDisabled", Boolean.TRUE); // Disables the tooltip completely from the property columns. (default false) (only for property columns, the tree column still shows the tooltip)
A simplified version of the patch is applied in changeset: 200901:6aa54b0ce62d "PropertyToolTipDisabled" does not seem to be necessary, the existing property "ComputingTooltip" is used in the same logic. "PropertyToolTipShortDescription" is set on for debugger views for convenience. http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/6aa54b0ce62d
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/6aa54b0ce62d User: mentlicher@netbeans.org Log: #199814 PropertyToolTipShortDescription client property introduced to retrieve tooltip text from the property short description.
Probably this should be done as a proper API change, e.g. a public constant for the client property, with apichanges.xml marked.