How do I create tooltips or something similar in iOS, without using any third party classes? I have a UIButton that I'd like to have a tooltip popup for a few seconds or until it's cleared. I have seen third party classes and libraries, but want to know if natively it's supported. I also want to show an arrow popping up from where the tooltip is coming from. I've seen some UIActionSheet Popups have this arrow.
Cheers, Amit
Well I ended up using the third party tooltip CMTopTipView afterall. It's relatively low overhead, just a header and implementation. Modified it slightly to account for ARC. Here is what I did:
#import "CMPopTipView.h"
CMPopTipView *navBarLeftButtonPopTipView;
- (void) dismissToolTip
{
[navBarLeftButtonPopTipView dismissAnimated:YES];
}
- (void) showDoubleTap
{
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView = [[CMPopTipView alloc]
initWithMessage:@"DOUBLE Tap \n to view details"] ;
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView.delegate = self;
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView.textColor = [UIColor lightTextColor];
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView.opaque = FALSE;
[navBarLeftButtonPopTipView presentPointingAtView:catButton1
inView:self.view animated:YES];
navBarLeftButtonPopTipView.alpha = 0.75f;
NSTimer *timerShowToolTip = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:5.0
target:self
selector:@selector(dismissToolTip) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
}