Hello all,

 Here is the scenario...I want to be able to use a gridview in asp.net 2.0 that is bound to a datasource.  That's no problem.  The first column in the gridview is a manufacturer part number.  This data is going to be a link.  When the user hovers over the link I want to have a tooltip immediately show up in the form of a bubble or balloon tooltip.  The tooltip widow should point to another page that loads the detail information from the database for that part number.  Here are the requirements as far as what I need and am looking for:

1)  The tooltip must show up and stay in place immediately and state that the background data is "Loading..."  (Preferably an animation for progress showing)

2)  The toolip must not disappear when the mouse is over either the link or the tooltip itself.

Is this at all possible?  I have found various balloon tooltips across the web, but none seem to conform to what I am looking for.  I have been at this search for weeks can someone please help me or guide me in the right direction?  I know that this is possible because I see it in those advertisements like "intellitxt".

 Please help!  :)

 

Why put so much energy in a tooltip.

Use the standard tooltip.

Keep it simple and put the necessary info on the refering link page.

That is a very good question!  :)

I wish I could find a better way of answering that one, but here is why:

The end user is going to be viewing the GridView as  a report, this report will be roughly 10 data columns wide and the informaiton that I need to have in the referring link is 30 columns wide for each row in the original data grid.  The end user would only need the 30 data as a reference if he/she could not immediately remember the UPC/part number info.  Referring them to another page would make the user have to go back and forth between pages and this was not a preferred way of navigation.  I plan on making the tooltip load an external page that I pass the UPC/Part number into to generate a table for the data output.  This method is going to be used across the site for anytime the user needs to refer to this information.

Does this make sense or have I missed something altogether that I should be looking for?

Hi,
basically, all you need can be achieved with javascript.
To make things easier, you don't have to pop up a new window.
Consider using div in the current form, and use javascript to control its postion and size.
Then with the help of ajax, it should be able to be done.

Perhaps you will find the following article to be of interest. I haven't used it in a datagrid before - but i don't think there will be any problems. http://weblogs.asp.net/cjdevos/archive/2008/03/29/asp-net-ajax-tooltipextender.aspx There's only two things left for you: 1. Write the CSS to apply you own layout 2. Write the AJAX methods to return the data you wish to show Good luck CJ.

I downloaded it from the site :

http://weblogs.asp.net/cjdevos/archive/2008/03/29/asp-net-ajax-tooltipextender.aspx

..and the static example "kind of" works...no user customization from the code behind..

dynamic example doesn't work at all. You must install it as its own VS2005 website

He fails to mention that it works with ASP.net AJAX 10920..nothing newer..notified the

author that I was using 20229.. managed to add it to my toolbox..when I drag/drop it

onto a 20229 page it wont add it..

"Control can not be created because Visual Studio can not find the controls type in the control assembly."

... if he fixes it (dynamic version) so that it can be accessed from code behind, and all the properties

can be set, eg: font, color, bold, italics, background, etc...it will be real good..something worth adding to your kit.

Regards,

Brian 

Check these links out..I'm happy to have found them and post them here

so others will quickly find them when searching on "tooltips"..

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/pptooltip.aspx

The above is most sophisticated and desireable for most users.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/XBalloonMsg.aspx

Regards....