2 ToolTips in an applet ?

Question

I have an applet that draws a graph, I would like to be able to have 2 tooltips that show on 2 different plotted lines. Am I thinking wrongly by trying to implement this with ToolTips? Should I be thinking in a different way of implementing this ?? any answers or help would be highly appreciated..
Peace
Ralph

Answer 1

I wrote this in a frame, but should work the same in an applet. Don't know why the tooltip doesn't seem to work if I don't set it initially.
You are going to have to put in some kind of 'closest to which line' logic
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    final JPanel content = (JPanel)frame.getContentPane();
    content.setToolTipText("hello");  //  Why???
    content.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter() {
      public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent me) {
     String text = null;
     if (me.getY()<100) text = "Top";
     else if (me.getY()>200) text = "Bottom";
     content.setToolTipText(text);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setSize(200,300);
    frame.show();
}