Question - how to make text in a tooltip selectable?

[davejbur]

I am using:

          myBarRenderer.setDefaultToolTipGenerator(new StandardXYToolTipGenerator()
          {
            @Override
            public String generateToolTip(XYDataset dataset, int series, int item)
            {
              return getCaption();
            }
          });

The function getCaption() returns some information about that particular bar using basic HTML.

What I would like to be able to do is make some/all of the information selectable, for copying into another application. Obviously you can do this from a standard HTML page, but clicking the mouse on the tootltip does nothing.

Have others had a similar problem to solve? Is there something I'm missing in the barrenderer (or jfreechart itself)? or do I need to write my own mousedown/mouseup event handler for the barrenderer? or is it best to use something in HTML (I haven't tried it yet, but I imagine it might be possible to use an HTML form input box, but ignore any changes to it?

Thanks for any pointers!

[trashgod]

I'm not sure about selecting text, but you can copy data from the corresponding ChartEntity to the clipboard like this.

[davejbur]

Thanks, I'll look at that!