SpanIndicator tooltips

This is something we've recognized as needing work for a while. We're open to any suggestions you might have.

One thought we've had is, in the event that requests QuickInfo, would you like it to also include the collection of indicators that span the point where the mouse hovers?

Sorry it's taken so long to reply, I never got the email saying my post had been replied to. Anyway, your suggestion sounds great; having the collection of spans for a quickinfo request would be an ideal solution.

This sounds close, but what I need is a tooltip for the glyph only. Thanks.

Greg

Ok, I'll add it to the TODO list.

We were looking over old posts and just for anyone who is interested in providing tooltips for span indicators, here is our recommended way using the current version.

Handle the TokenMouseHover event and in that make a call GetSpanIndicatorsForOffset to get the span indicators at the token offset passed by the event arguments.

So something like this would give you an array of span indicators at the token's start offset: From that you can see if there are any that should display a tooltip and if so, return the appropriate tooltip text.