Opening a hover editor from my own plugin

[dcoales]

Hi, I've written my own canvas plugin and one of the options I want to add to the popup menu is a quick button to open the current node in a hover editor. I think I've figured out how to add the button but I'm not sure how to access the hover editor plugin's methods to actually open the note in a hover editor. I apologise if this is a really dumb basic question but any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[pjeby]

Have a look at Quick Explorer: https://github.com/pjeby/quick-explorer/blob/master/src/FolderMenu.ts#L345

Basically, you fire an event with the right link and a hoverParent (second arg to trigger) that's an Obsidian HoverParent (i.e. has a hoverPopover property). The object's hoverPopover property will be set to the popover object and you can then call popover.togglePin?.(true); to pin it and leave it open (assuming hover editor is installed, otherwise you'll just get a hover preview at the targeted location). Something like:

const parent = {
    set hoverPopover(popover) {
        if (!popover) return    // it can be null!
        popover.togglePin?.(true);  // pin the popover
        // XXX do other stuff here?
    }
};

// relativeTo should be "" unless path is a relative link, in which case it should be
// what it's relative to.  If you have a TFile, use file.path and "" for the last two args:
app.workspace.trigger('link-hover', parent, buttonElement, path, relativeTo);

If you want to actually focus the hover editor, not just pop it up, it might be a bit trickier than that.

[dcoales]

Excellent thank you. I'll give this a go.