How to add a ToolTip to MapMarker in JMapViewer

Question

I\'m trying to add a ToolTip to a custom MapMarker on JMapViewer. But repeaded searches on are not helping me solve this.

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Answer 1

Override the getToolTipText() method of JMapViewer. In your implementation, use getPosition() to convert the MouseEvent coordinates into geodetic coordinates. The example below simply displays the unformatted coordinates; you'll want to find the nearest MapMarker and return the appropriate text.

JMapViewer map = new JMapViewer() {

    @Override
    public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent e) {
        Coordinate c = getPosition(e.getX(), e.getY());
        return c.getLat() + " " + c.getLon();
    }
};
map.setToolTipText(""); // initialize 

Addendum: Is there a way of adding a tooltip directly to an image?

No; JMapViewer is the enclosing JComponent that handles tool tips.

I have about 50 markers on the map…that's a lot of iterations.

You definitely can't load images in your MapMarker implementation; use a SWingWorker to load images in the background, for example.

As a concrete iteration example, JFreeChart easily handles tool tips for scores of entities in this way. Here's the enclosing panel's getToolTipText() implementation, and here's the loop that invokes Shape#contains(). A simplified example that illustrates the approach is seen here.