Tool Bar popups on mouse hover

[will808]

I'm trying to have some identifying text popup when a user hovers the mouse over a toolbar button or similar - kind of like alt text on the IE browser.

I'm looking at ToolTipUI and MouseMotionListener, but don't seem to be getting anywhere fast - cna anyone tell me if I'm on the righ track?

Thanks.

[Phaelax]

For example, any Swing component can use the JComponent setToolTipText method to specify the text for a standard tooltip

Directly from the JToolTip API.

myButton.setToolTip("this is my button");
myToolBar.add(myButton);

[will808]

<slaps forehead>

Thanks Phaelax - being new to this I'm still getting used to working out what things are called and what to look for in the api - thanks again