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eclipseeclipse-plugintooltipeclipse-rcpplugin.xml

How to modify the tooltip for various eclipse commands e.g. Paste, Cut, Copy

I want to modify the existing tool tip text.I have following lines in plugin.xml 

<command commandId="org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste" 
 id="org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste" tooltip="%pasteAction.TIP">

in plugin.properties 

pasteAction.TIP=Paste

Existing tool tip appears like following

Paste(Ctrl+V)

I want to modify this existing tool tip to appears like following

Paste(Ctrl+V)
Paste a reference to the object

I am getting three problems to achieve this use case.

  • (Ctrl+V) added automatically at the end of tool tip text. which is not desired. It should appear where it is expected.

  • don't know how to Bold the particular string e.g. (Ctrl+V)

  • don't know how to make tool tip text multiline

we can use \n for multiline. it works but still looking for other two questions.

Thanks

Solution

  • For controls that you create you can use the org.eclipse.jface.window.ToolTip class to define custom tool tips.

    For controls that Eclipse creates I don't know of any way to change the position of the key binding text or the font (bold).