TipOfTheDay

Introduction

Usage

This component is a widget that displays a "Tip of The Day". It contains the area to display the tip, buttons to navigate through the list of tips, a close button and optionnaly a checkbox "show tips on startup".

The first thing to do if to create an instance of TipOfTheDay and add tips :

final TipOfTheDay tip = new TipOfTheDay();
tip.addTip("This is the first tip<br/> " + "<b>This is the first tip</b> " + "<u>This is the first tip</u> " + "<i>This is the first tip</i> " + "This is the first tip " + "This is the first tip<br/>" + "This is the first tip "
		+ "This is the first tip");
tip.addTip("This is the second tip<br/> " + "<b>This is the second tip</b> " + "<u>This is the second tip</u> <br/>" + "<i>This is the second tip</i> " + "This is the second tip " + "This is the second tip <br/>" + "This is the second tip "
		+ "This is the second tip");

Please notice that tips can contain HTML code !

You can set the style and customize the image :

tip.setStyle(TipStyle.TWO_COLUMNS_LARGE);
tip.setImage(myImage);

Finally, you open the window :

tip.open(mainShell);

You can get the status of the checkbox "show tip on startup" by calling the method showOnStartup.

Example

An example called TipOfTheDaySnippet is available in the directory src/test/java/org/mihalis/opal/tipOfTheDay

You can also have a look here : https://github.com/lcaron/opal/blob/master/src/test/java/org/mihalis/opal/tipOfTheDay/TipOfTheDaySnippet.java