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Mouse hover help, Using the tooltip control
sun_storm
5 Jun, 2007 - 11:44 AM
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Hello guys. I have another question for you. I'm trying to insert in my application "that help" when I hover a button with the mouse. Exactly like when you hover the X button from the application title bar: right next to it, appears, in an yellow box, the message "Close". Can anyone help me ?

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5 Jun, 2007 - 06:50 PM
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HI, those little boxes are called "tooltips" and windows does natively support them. To use them in your program you must follow the following steps:
#1 load the control from the dll.
#2 Create the control using the CreateWindow and the TOOLTIPS_CLASS
#3 Prepare TOOLINFO structure.
#4 Send the control you want to add the tooltip to a message telling it to add the tool tip control (not all controls will process this message... but the common controls do).
#5 Activate the tool (I am not sure YOU have to do this... I think the control can do it).

Anyway, I am no expert. The above was gleaned from MSDN. The process is a bit less involved with MFC. And there are other 3rd party tooltip classes.
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QUOTE(NickDMax @ 5 Jun, 2007 - 07:50 PM) *

HI, those little boxes are called "tooltips" and windows does natively support them. To use them in your program you must follow the following steps:
#1 load the control from the dll.
#2 Create the control using the CreateWindow and the TOOLTIPS_CLASS
#3 Prepare TOOLINFO structure.
#4 Send the control you want to add the tooltip to a message telling it to add the tool tip control (not all controls will process this message... but the common controls do).
#5 Activate the tool (I am not sure YOU have to do this... I think the control can do it).

Anyway, I am no expert. The above was gleaned from MSDN. The process is a bit less involved with MFC. And there are other 3rd party tooltip classes.



Woow...thanks a lot Nick, that really really helped me. I've managed to work it out. Thanks again & good luck icon_up.gif
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