Tooltip for a MenuItem

Flow
1

There is no method available to set a tooltip for a MenuItem. There are methods in Menubar.addItem() but I’m looking one available in MenuItem class. Could this be added in the next release?

2

MenuBar has the method setTooltipText(MenuItem menuItem, String tooltipText)

3

Looking for the same in MenuItem itself like we’ve in other components

4

Any fix or workaround for this one ? In my case I create the menuItem first and then later add Tooltip which is not possible now as it is expecting both at the creation time itself

5

Hi,

Just make sure I understand your issue correctly. Why doesn’t the method setTooltipText(MenuItem menuItem, String tooltipText) in the MenuBar, as Olli mentioned, work for you?

If this method doesn’t fit your use case, I would suggest creating a new issue in the flow-components repo so we can evaluate adding this API to the component.

6

The problem is, I’ve an interface HasToolTip and is expecting methods like setTooltip. A fluentBuilder I’ve created is implemting this interface and soexpecting the tooltip in a different method like setToolTip so I’m looking something like that.

And for consistency purpose too, you can consider this way like all other components do

7

It you cannot rely on Vaadin Tooltip, you could use an Add-On like Tooltips4Vaadin. Which is End Of Life as I just see… But it works fine, I use it too.

Maybe implement it yourself into your fluentBilder and use some of Vaadin’s code:

    default Tooltip setTooltipText(String text) {
        var tooltip = Tooltip.getForElement(getElement());
        if (tooltip == null) {
            tooltip = Tooltip.forHasTooltip(this);
        }
        tooltip.setText(text);
        return tooltip;
    }