Customising Tooltips

In the software, tooltips are used to display useful information (labels selected by the user) when an object is hovered over in the GeoPlan.

Tooltip options and settings

To access settings for tooltips:

• Right-click on the GeoPlan
• Select Properties & Themes
• Select the Auto Labels and Tooltips page

The principle of tooltips is the same across all software products & incarnations, therefore the following screenshots are examples of what tooltips can be used for (or look like), as the screenshots may not have been taken using your particular software.

Default tooltips

By default, GeoPlan tooltips display the object ID. When hovered, objects are listed vertically, and are presented in a list that is truncated before 80 characters are reached, and the text more appended at the end.

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Interactive tooltips

These are switched on by checking Interactive Tooltips in the Auto Labels and Tooltips page of the GeoPlan Properties dialog.

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It is possible to customise which fields will be displayed in tooltips.

When you click Tooltip Fields, the ToolTip Field Settings dialog is displayed. From there, select the network object fields to be displayed in tooltips.

Interactive tooltips have tree-control buttons on them that allow the list of items showing what is underneath the mouse to be expanded so that the fields selected in the Tooltip Fields Settings dialog can be displayed to the user.  When expanding these tree-items, the tooltip box adjusts in size in order to accommodate for this expansion.

The user can browse the different objects by clicking on the "+" sign in front of each of them and by using the vertical scroll bar.

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The interactive tooltip stays open until:

• A different object or area is hovered over for long enough to bring a different tooltip up
• A key or mouse button is pressed (unless the mouse button is pressed on the tooltip itself)
• The mouse leaves both the GeoPlan and the tool tip