Tooltip

Library "Tooltip"
This library helps creating and managing nice looking data (key/value) tooltips that you can use for
labels. The tooltips data key/value will align automatically. It is optional to convert the data to a values only string too.

method addSpacesToKey(this)
Calculates the amount of spaces needed after the key to make it the key least 4 characters wide.
Namespace types: Data
Parameters:
this (Data): (Data) The Data.

method addTabs(this, longestKeyLength)
Calculates the amount of tabs to be used.
Namespace types: Data
Parameters:
this (Data): (Data) The Data.
longestKeyLength (int)

method longestKeyLength(this)
Returns the length of the longest key string in the array.
Namespace types: Data[]
Parameters:
this (Data[]): (Tooltip) The object to work with.
return (int) The length of the key.

method toString(tooltips, withKey)
Helper function for the tooltip.
Namespace types: Data[]
Parameters:
tooltips (Data[])
withKey (bool): (bool) Wether to create a string with keys in it.
return (string) The string

new()
Creates a new array to store tooltip data in
return (Data) The data array.

Data
Key/Value pair for tooltips
Fields:
key (series string)
value (series string)

Release Notes

v2 | Fixed bug where amount of tabs and spaces were calculated incorrectly when the key was shorter than the size of a tab (4 chars)

Added:
method fill(this, longestKeyLength)
Calculates the amount of spaces and tabs to align all values.
Namespace types: Data
Parameters:
this (Data): (Data) The Data.
longestKeyLength (int)

Removed:
method addSpacesToKey(this)
Calculates the amount of spaces needed after the key to make it the key least 4 characters wide.

method addTabs(this, longestKeyLength)
Calculates the amount of tabs to be used.

Release Notes

v3 | Fixed more alignment bugs.

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