How to use a callback function as content-specifier

[interpotential]

Unfortunately, I haven't figured this one out yet.

Unstead of some url with parameters, or static text - I would like to supply a callback function, which would have access to the trigger element, the event, and the API to provide the content for my qTip.

This way, I could actively use the state of the browser window (fx form values) at the moment the tooltip renders.

(I hope I'm posting in the right forum here)

[Craig]

This isn't supported in the 1.0 releases unfortunately. I like the idea though... nice alternative to regular text, so it's been added to the 2.0 nightlies.

Although, you should be able to do this easily enough by just using an .each() loop- and doing you checks etc. before you setup your tooltip:

JS Code

$('.selector').each(function() {
   var content = 'blah';
   $(this).qtip({ content: content });
});

[interpotential]

That's indeed how I solved it, and which works for the instance where I needed it. In another instance, I decided to use the onRender api function to do an ajax request and set title and content from the JSON response object. A case for which I could have imagined using a setting telling qTip to tell jQuery to parse the response as JSON.

That JSON object could have been fed into another callback function.

Or, and that's perhaps more obvious - could contain a subset of options qTip understands, essentially controlling qTip from the server side.

Anyway, just a thought. Support for: content: function(api, event) { } would already be a bliss. Especially if I could return false to suppress actually showing the tooltip.

[eggpoker]

I solved with beforeShow api method like this:
[
beforeShow:function()
{
$.ajax({url:'soewhere',
onSuccess:function()
{
//get your content and put it in the tcontent
},
onError:function()
{
return false;
//and the tip won't be shown
}
});
}
]
wish it helps