ShowItemToolTips?

[Deborah]

What is ShowItemTooltips supposed to do? I turned it on for my bound grid and don't see any tooltips.

What I was hoping for was to see the full text of each cell as I hover over the cell.

Is there a way to do this automatically? Or do I have to write the code to display cell tooltips?

Thanks!

[Jack]

Hi Deborah,

Thank you for contacting us.

This property enables or disables showing tool-tips in general. However, you should assign the tool-tip text explicitly. This can be done by handling the ToolTipTextNeeded event in RadGridView. Please consider the GridView >> Customize >> Tooltips example in our demo application, it demonstrates this scenario.

If you have further questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards, Jack
the Telerik team

[Deborah]

I am trying to show the value of the field in the tooltips. But I don't seem to be able to get the actual cell's value.

For example, if the cell is formatted as a short date or as a currency, I don't get the formatted value.

As another example, if the cell is a combobox bound with a ValueMember of an Id and a DisplayMember of a string, I get the value member. So instead of displaying "Jones, Johnny", I get 42 in the tooltip.

Is there a way to display the field's displayed value in the tooltip?

[Deborah]

Never mind. I got it. Here it is in case someone else ever needs it:

Private Sub myGrid_ToolTipTextNeeded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.WinControls.ToolTipTextNeededEventArgs) Handles Me.ToolTipTextNeeded
    Dim gridCell As GridDataCellElement = TryCast(sender, GridDataCellElement)
    Dim tooltipText As String = String.Empty
    If gridCell IsNot Nothing AndAlso
            String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(gridCell.ToolTipText) Then
        If Not String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(gridCell.Text) Then
            tooltipText = gridCell.Text
        End If
        gridCell.ToolTipText = tooltipText
    End If
End Sub

Is there a way to mark my post as the answer? ;-)

[Stefan]

Hi Deborah,

We have marked the post as answer for you.

If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
 
Sincerely yours,
Stefan
the Telerik team