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nsITooltipListener

IID:44b78386-1dd2-11b2-9ad2-e4eee2ca1916
Inherits From:nsISupports
Status:FROZEN

An optional interface for embedding clients wishing to receive notifications for when a tooltip should be displayed or removed. The embedder implements this interface on the web browser chrome object associated with the window that notifications are required for.

Methods

void onHideTooltip ( ) void onShowTooltip ( PRInt32 XCoords , PRInt32 YCoords , PRUnichar* tipText )

void onHideTooltip ( )

Called when the tooltip should be hidden, either because the pointer has moved or the tooltip has timed out.

void onShowTooltip ( PRInt32 XCoords , PRInt32 YCoords , PRUnichar* tipText )

Called when a tooltip should be displayed.

Arguments:
XCoords: The tooltip left edge X coordinate.
YCoords: The tooltip top edge Y coordinate.
tipText: The text to display in the tooltip, typically obtained from the TITLE attribute of the node (or containing parent) over which the pointer has been positioned.
Returns:
NS_OK if the tooltip was displayed.

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