Right justifying Arabic tooltips

S

Swetha

Hello

I am trying to create tooltips in Arabic. Though the Arabic characters
are displayed correctly and they read from right to left, I am not able
to set the alignment for the tooltip as right justified. Hence, the
right-to-left Arabic text is left justified and this looks weird. Does
anyone have any ideas how I can solve this?

Regards
Swetha
 
S

Swetha

Back with one of the solutions this time : I just included <p
align="right"> to the text and this works.

Swetha
 
R

Roedy Green

I am trying to create tooltips in Arabic. Though the Arabic characters
are displayed correctly and they read from right to left, I am not able
to set the alignment for the tooltip as right justified. Hence, the
right-to-left Arabic text is left justified and this looks weird. Does
anyone have any ideas how I can solve this?
Click to expand...

Don't tooltips shrink to fit?
Are you doing multiline tooltips?

Or do you mean how the tooltip
aligns with where the mouse is?

In my own experments I discovered
the right to leftness was
triggered simply by the
presence of Hebrew/Arabic characters.

The alignment was up to you.
 
R

Roedy Green

I just included <p
align="right"> to the text and this works.
Click to expand...

you mean like embedded HTML?

Did you have add anything else or do anything to tell it this was HTML
not simple text?
 
S

Swetha

Roedy

Well, the right to left of the text is triggered just by the presence
of Arabic characters, but the alignement(righ/left-justify) is not.
Hence you have to explicitly specify the alignment, if the tooltips are
multiline, or else you have right-to-left Arabic text which is by
default aligned to the left.

Ans about the embedded HTML, I just added "<html><p align = "right"> to
the beginning of the string. So the code finally was something like:

label1.setToolTip("<html><p align = \"right\">Click here for more
info");

Swetha
 

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