[Scilab-Dev] Regarding tooltps in uitable

[Clément David]

Hi Rish,

I guess the simpler proposal is the better, from a user point of view :

> 1)  "no value" : no tooltip is displayed

Simply use the empty matrix scilab symbol [] for empty or none representation.

```scilab
o = uicontrol("table", ...);
o.tooltips = []

```

> 2)  "values" (special flag): The value of each cell is tooltiped when overflying it.
> This mode is required to ensure that the contents of too narrow cells can be fully seen without
> editing the cell.

This is a corner-case that can be easily implemented in a generic way. To display all the values as
tooltips, implement something like :

```scilab
o = uicontrol("table", ...);
o.tooltips = o.data;

```

> 3)  "TT":  where TT is a matrix of strings of .strings size: When overflying the cell(i,j), the
> tooltip's content is the        TT(i,j) content + \n + the cell(i,j) content.

Again this seems to be complex and hard to understand by the end user. Using a string matrix will
allow a simple definition of what a tooltip is. Ignore the empty string "" to let the user undefine
a tooltip for a specific cell ; othewise any string value might be used as a tooltip.

```scilab
o = uicontrol("table", ...);
o.tooltips = ["tooltip for (1,1)" "tooltip for (1,2)" "tooltip for (1,3)"
              "tooltip for (2,1)" "tooltip for (2,2)" ""]

```

Thanks for any remarks,

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Clément