Comments on: Displaying DataTips when using an itemRenderer

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:05:10 +0000

Thnx a million for this soln!

By: David

David — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:58:59 +0000

Thank you for publishing your solution. It is a great general approach to the problem and proved very useful!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:47 +0000

[...] beim verwenden von ItemRenderern versagt. (Dabei hatte dann aber das hier ausgeholfen: Displaying DataTips when using an itemRenderer | Kalen Gibbons). Dann steh ich aber doch immer noch vor dem selben Problem, denn die unter [...]

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:55:26 +0000

@Andrew,
I’ve never had to do it myself, but you should probably manually position the tooltip as described in this post and it’s comments.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2007/05/positioning_tooltips_1.html

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:47 +0000

Thank you so much, I have been struggling with my datatips getting trashed by their item renderer. You are awesome!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:20:17 +0000

Can you point to an example of the styles code mentioned? “The only minor difference is the positioning of the label, but that can be easily modified with styles.”
Thanks,

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:11:10 +0000

Nice work! Thanks!

It went clean to an AdvancedDataGrid, except I had a first line in the getToolTip() function:

if (listData == null) return “”;

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:25:59 +0000

Wow! You saved hours of research. This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton!