I'm trying to add a ToolTip
to a custom MapMarker
on JMapViewer. But repeaded searches on are not helping me solve this.
The custom MapMarker is:
public class MapMarkerUnit extends MapObjectImpl implements MapMarker
and the Paint Method overide is
public void paint(Graphics g, Point position, int radio) {
String filename = "marker.png";
//System.out.print(filename);
BufferedImage x = null;
try {
x = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResource(filename));
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MapMarkerUnit.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
g.drawImage(x, position.x-16, position.y-37,null);
//if(getLayer()==null||getLayer().isVisibleTexts()) paintText(g, new Point(position.x+20,position.y));
}
Thanks for any help your able to offer.
Override the getToolTipText()
method of JMapViewer
. In your implementation, use getPosition()
to convert the MouseEvent
coordinates into geodetic coordinates. The example below simply displays the unformatted coordinates; you'll want find the nearest MapMarker
and return the appropriate text.
JMapViewer map = new JMapViewer() {
@Override
public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent e) {
Coordinate c = getPosition(e.getX(), e.getY());
return c.getLat() + " " + c.getLon();
}
};
map.setToolTipText(""); // initialize
Addendum: Is there a way of adding a tooltip directly to an image?
No; JMapViewer
is the enclosing JComponent
that handles tool tips.
I have about 50 markers on the map…that's a lot of iterations.
You definitely can't load images in your MapMarker
implementation; use a SWingWorker
to load images in the background, for example.
As a concrete iteration example, JFreeChart
easily handles tool tips for scores of entities in this way. Here's the enclosing panel's getToolTipText()
implementation, and here's the loop that invokes Shape#contains()
. A simplified example that illustrates the approach is seen here.