A Hover object will hover over its parent object at the target location. Anything in the background will be given a darker coloring to indicate that the hover object is on top (at the default theme). When the hover is clicked it is dismissed(hidden), if the contents of the hover are clicked that doesn't cause the hover to be dismissed.

A Hover object has two parents. One parent that owns it during creation and the other parent being the one over which the hover object spans.

Note:: The hover object will take up the entire space of target object.

Elementary has the following styles for the hover widget:

default
popout
menu
hoversel_vertical

This widget inherits from the Layout one, so that all the functions acting on it also work for hover objects.

This widget emits the following signals, besides the ones sent from Layout:

"clicked" - the user clicked the empty space in the hover to dismiss
"dismissed" - the user clicked the empty space in the hover to dismiss (since 1.8)
"smart,changed" - a content object placed under the "smart" policy was replaced to a new slot direction.
"focused" - When the hover has received focus. (since 1.8)
"unfocused" - When the hover has lost focus. (since 1.8)

Default content parts of the hover widget that you can use for are:

"left"
"top-left"
"top"
"top-right"
"right"
"bottom-right"
"bottom"
"bottom-left"
"middle"
"smart"

Note:: These content parts indicates the direction that the content will be displayed

All directions may have contents at the same time, except for "smart". This is a special placement hint and its use case depends of the calculations coming from elm_hover_best_content_location_get(). Its use is for cases when one desires only one hover content, but with a dynamic special placement within the hover area. The content's geometry, whenever it changes, will be used to decide on a best location, not extrapolating the hover's parent object view to show it in (still being the hover's target determinant of its medium part -- move and resize it to simulate finger sizes, for example). If one of the directions other than "smart" are used, a previously content set using it will be deleted, and vice-versa.

Supported elm_object common APIs.

See Hover example for more information.

Functions
void	elm_hover_target_set (Elm_Hover obj, Efl_Canvas_Object target)
	Sets the target object for the hover.
Efl_Canvas_Object *	elm_hover_target_get (const Elm_Hover *obj)
	Get the target object for the hover.
const char *	elm_hover_best_content_location_get (const Elm_Hover *obj, Elm_Hover_Axis pref_axis)
	Returns the best swallow location for content in the hover.
void	elm_hover_dismiss (Elm_Hover *obj)
Evas_Object *	elm_hover_add (Evas_Object *parent)
	Adds a hover object to `parent`.
void	elm_hover_parent_set (Evas_Object obj, Evas_Object parent)
	Sets the parent object for the hover.
Evas_Object *	elm_hover_parent_get (const Evas_Object *obj)
	Get the parent object for the hover.

Enumeration Type Documentation

enum Elm_Hover_Axis

The orientation axis for the hover object

Enumerator:

ELM_HOVER_AXIS_NONE	ELM_HOVER_AXIS_NONE -- no preferred orientation.
ELM_HOVER_AXIS_HORIZONTAL	ELM_HOVER_AXIS_HORIZONTAL -- horizontal.
ELM_HOVER_AXIS_VERTICAL	ELM_HOVER_AXIS_VERTICAL -- vertical.
ELM_HOVER_AXIS_BOTH	ELM_HOVER_AXIS_BOTH -- both.

Function Documentation

Evas_Object* elm_hover_add ( Evas_Object * parent )

Adds a hover object to parent.

Parameters:

parent The parent object

Returns:: The hover object or NULL if one could not be created

Examples:: hover_example_01.c, and inwin_example.c.

const char* elm_hover_best_content_location_get	(	const Elm_Hover *	obj,
		Elm_Hover_Axis	pref_axis
	)

Returns the best swallow location for content in the hover.

Best is defined here as the location at which there is the most available space.

pref_axis may be either ELM_HOVER_AXIS_NONE (for no preferred orientation), ELM_HOVER_AXIS_HORIZONTAL, ELM_HOVER_AXIS_VERTICAL or ELM_HOVER_AXIS_BOTH.

If ELM_HOVER_AXIS_HORIZONTAL is chosen the returned position will necessarily be along the horizontal axis("left" or "right"). If ELM_HOVER_AXIS_VERTICAL is chosen the returned position will necessarily be along the vertical axis("top" or "bottom"). Choosing ELM_HOVER_AXIS_BOTH or ELM_HOVER_AXIS_NONE has the same effect and the returned position may be in either axis.

See also elm_object_part_content_set.

Parameters:

[in]	obj	The object.
[in]	pref_axis	The preferred orientation axis for the hover object to use

Returns:: Swallow location

void elm_hover_dismiss ( Elm_Hover * obj )

Dismiss a hover object

Evas_Object* elm_hover_parent_get ( const Evas_Object * obj )

Get the parent object for the hover.

Parameters:

obj	The hover object

Returns:: The parent object to locate the hover over.

See also:: elm_hover_parent_set()

void elm_hover_parent_set	(	Evas_Object *	obj,
		Evas_Object *	parent
	)

Sets the parent object for the hover.

Parameters:

obj	The hover object
parent	The object to locate the hover over.

This function will cause the hover to take up the entire space that the parent object fills.

Examples:: hover_example_01.c.

Efl_Canvas_Object* elm_hover_target_get ( const Elm_Hover * obj )

Get the target object for the hover.

Parameters:

[in] obj The object.

Returns:: The target object.

void elm_hover_target_set	(	Elm_Hover *	obj,
		Efl_Canvas_Object *	target
	)

Sets the target object for the hover.

This function will cause the hover to be centered on the target object.

Parameters:

[in]	obj	The object.
[in]	target	The target object.

Examples:: hover_example_01.c, and inwin_example.c.

Functions

Enumeration Type Documentation

Function Documentation