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MArio Flores G
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ExTooltip Class is the First Full VB Open Source from Scratch written code, that allows you to create AWESOME Customizable tooltips.
Display any custom Icon of Your Choice.
ToolTip can be standard rectangle, or Balloon style like windows 2000/XP
Make Your Balloon Tooltip Semi-Transparent (Works on All Windows)
Add Any Color, Gradient or Picture of your choice to the Background.
Use any Custom Font you want on each Tooltip. And more!!
The Ultimate Tooltip code you will want to use!
Updates at http://www.geocities.com/sistec_de_juarez/ExTooltip/
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 4/2/2005 3:57:16 PM: MArio Flores G
If You Like This Code, Comment and Vote Here!!
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4/2/2005 4:05:57 PM: Xeon Productions
This code r0x0rz my s0x0rz! 5 globes from me!
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4/2/2005 4:34:20 PM: Mr_Merlin
Nicely Done. Easy to read, understand and follow.
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4/2/2005 4:35:10 PM: Xeon Productions
Let me be more descriptive, this is the best tooltip example i've seen. It has a few bugs, not sure if its just with the interface or with the tooltip class itself. But good work man. I've looked at your other submissions and they have followed the same path of greatness. I respect you!
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4/2/2005 5:09:40 PM: David M Rice
WOW! This is very fine stuff. Thank you 1,000 times for sharing it.
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4/2/2005 5:15:25 PM: Daniel W Elkins
At first I was wondering why there is yet another tooltip submission here but then I saw how good it was. Definately the best I've seen. Nice work...will definately use this one.
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4/2/2005 5:55:02 PM: MArio Flores G
Minor Update.- Ups on me, the Tooltip automatically restarted all the Default values every time the tooltip Die (pretty normal),but when the mouse was still on the calling control didn’t seem correctly, added WM,DESTROY Message, to notify. Should work better
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4/2/2005 7:20:18 PM: Matthew R. Usner
I've seen your other submissions (most of them anyway) and you're one of the few that people should almost automatically give 5 globes to. Thanks for a very cool submission.
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4/2/2005 10:25:47 PM:
coool !! 5 globes
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4/3/2005 12:33:27 AM: Anders Lyman
Another great submission from Mario!
5 from me.
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4/3/2005 1:38:08 AM:
Excellent 5 from me.
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4/3/2005 3:34:36 AM: Mil-X Pro
Very cool, and the transparency works in Win98 (this is the one I admired most). Easy and advance. Thanks for sharing. 5*.
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4/3/2005 3:36:18 AM: Mil-X Pro
What I mean 'easy' is the codes is clean and well managed.
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4/3/2005 5:25:39 AM: Phantom Man
Well Done MArio The Most Clean And Advanced Tooltip Yet.
Thanks For Sharing.
Kind Regards
Gary
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4/3/2005 5:46:39 AM: Phantom Man
Mario
Thought you Should Know:
When You Set The Tooltip To ttBalloon And ttShadow It Works Fine, But When The Balloon Tip First Shows Try To Hover Over The Balloon Tip and It Disappears (Which Is Correct) And Another One Will Show In A Couple Of Seconds As A Rectangular Tip.
I Hope That Makes Sense. (Tested On XP Pro And Home SP2)
Kind Regards
Gary
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4/3/2005 7:14:28 AM: carniv0re
Superb! 5 globes from me.
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4/3/2005 8:16:29 AM: WSC
Fantastic tool that can give a really professional look to our apps. I gave 5 globals.
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4/3/2005 10:27:05 AM: Paul Caton
Mario, some of the subclass methods are Public... surely they should be marked Private, no?
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of a self-sub class, I'll update the self-sub submission soon.
And congrats on the code, excellent!
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4/3/2005 12:37:56 PM: Kevin Precht
Mario, thank you for sharing this piece of code. 5 Globes from me! I'm not yet at the level where I know all of the considerations involved in writing this, but you've written such a clear and well documented piece of code that I will surely be able to learn valuable lessons from it. Way to go, and thanks again!
Kevin
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4/3/2005 1:30:23 PM: Hidroilio Perez
as always 10 points
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4/3/2005 5:34:45 PM: elbarto
Nice code!
Is there a way to show the tooltip on labels? labels don't have a hwnd...
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4/3/2005 7:43:08 PM: Abhishek.NET
it looks like you got inspired from http://www.teebo.com/tssBalloonTip.htm same fearures, great work. 5 stars
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4/3/2005 10:48:53 PM: Thushan Fernando
Excellent work:-)
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4/4/2005 2:42:45 AM:
Excellent - thanks for sharing and for commenting so well! 5 from me!
One question - is it possible to make it so that the tool tip will position itself over a text box rather than where the pointer is. I am hoping to use it in an app where the user enters a password and to warn them if the caps lock is on (in a similar way to XP) but I want the tool tip to be positioned by the text box where the password will be entered rather than where the mouse pointer is - any hints on how to re-position it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Doug.
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4/4/2005 4:12:42 AM: JB
All I can say is WOW. Excellent work, as always. Five BIG onions from me!!!
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4/4/2005 4:42:28 AM: MArio Flores G
To: Phantom Man
The problem is that the label is triggering the Tooltip instead of the PictureBox.
Minor Fix:
Bug with Control Mouse Coords,
if The Calling Control Had Child Controls,the Tooltip didn’t reset M_ExWindow.Flag,
Added “If mAlive =True” before Flag is
Fired, with this,the Tooltip ignores
any Child Window or Windowless controls
if mouse is moved in same cords.
(Only calling controls Mouse movements are valid)
See Changes in WM_TIMER
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4/4/2005 5:31:27 AM: MArio Flores G
Minor Update, The ToolTip wasn’t
destroyed when the user clicked on the
calling control
(natural Tooltip
behavior). Added WM_MOUSEACTIVATE Message.
Thanks All for your
Support,if you found any bugs please
contact me.
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4/4/2005 5:57:05 AM: _Merlin_
This is pretty good stuff.
5 balls worth!
Merlin is the name, and logic is my game...
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4/4/2005 6:39:10 AM: Libor Blaheta
does ExTooltip support Unicode and RtL reading?
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4/4/2005 9:04:29 AM: Phantom Man
Thanks Mario!
Gary
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4/4/2005 12:28:32 PM: tHa_imaX
d*mn! not bad!
youve got my vote!
keep on coding!
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4/4/2005 1:42:23 PM:
We have April's winner.
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4/4/2005 3:17:41 PM: Matthew R. Usner
He'll probably have 200 5-globe ratings, and deserves every one of them.
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4/4/2005 4:29:41 PM: ¿?¿?
Awesome! I can predict you will be this months winner even though we have 26 more days left =)
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4/4/2005 7:10:13 PM: Dean Camera
Wow! 5 globes. I agree; this is excellent, and definetly this month's winner.
- Dean
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4/4/2005 10:58:54 PM: Heriberto Mantilla Santamaría
Hi MArio, this class is brilliant, alone believes that one can say wow.
Congratulations.
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4/5/2005 3:07:28 AM: gshawn2
one of the best submissions I have ever seen. *****
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4/5/2005 4:16:51 PM: Daniel W Elkins
Found a bug, if the ShowToolTip method is called twice in a row, for example, using it on a click event, and the user clicks it twice, it will crash VB. In the class's ShowToolTip sub's code, after the "With" statement, simply add a: "if malive = true then exit sub". Also, no matter what I do I can't seem to get my own pictures to show up on the tooltip. Any ideas?
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4/5/2005 4:45:22 PM: Daniel W Elkins
Nevermind, I fixed the icon problem.
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4/5/2005 10:46:16 PM: Bugzy
Amazing piece of work MArio, thanks for the effort!
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4/6/2005 9:15:23 AM: AlT
Mario, you misspelled the word 'width' in one of your comments contained within the ShowToolTip Sub.....
The point being...it was the only thing I could find to knock. ;-) This sh1t is good!
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4/6/2005 3:05:51 PM: Darryn Frost
Good, clean, professional code.
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4/7/2005 7:38:36 AM: enmity
to:Daniel W Elkins
I think your pictures are not properly displayed is because you use not Bitmap file such as icon/bmp, but gif etc. Same problem here.
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4/7/2005 8:52:18 PM:
Very Good
Does not support UniCode.
Asked how I do want to do.
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4/8/2005 11:44:08 AM:
Great work! 5 from me!
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4/9/2005 3:42:00 AM: Paul Turcksin
Superb! This post has it all. Useful, attractive, fast, reliable, ... Thanks for sharig this jewel. @@@@@
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4/10/2005 1:35:23 AM: pao_francis
Very nice code. Does the balloon or the tooltip has a effect (Alpha Blend Load) just like the balloon shown in windows xp?
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4/11/2005 1:09:31 PM: Fred.cpp
great! otro primer lugar para ti ;)
five balls
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4/13/2005 8:47:26 AM: Brendon Pilt
5* from me
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4/14/2005 12:12:07 PM: MArio Flores G
'When Calling Control Hwnd is Always on TOP'
in the "ChangeWindowStyles Function"
Change This Line
ChangeWindowStyles = SetWindowPos(ThWnd, 0, .x - .bExt, .y + .aExt, .Width, .Height + Abs(.aExt), SWP_NOACTIVATE Or SWP_NOZORDER Or SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
To This Line
ChangeWindowStyles = SetWindowPos(ThWnd, -1, .x - .bExt, .y + .aExt, .Width, .Height + Abs(.aExt), SWP_NOACTIVATE Or SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
will update the ZIP Later.
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4/15/2005 1:23:24 PM: LOBO TOTAL
this is copied!!!!
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4/15/2005 6:31:07 PM: Heriberto Mantilla Santamaría
To LOBO TOTAL
You to that him this calling copy.
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4/15/2005 6:42:50 PM: Matthew R. Usner
lobo total. total lobotomy. whatever.
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4/15/2005 6:44:39 PM: Matthew R. Usner
you should be kicked off this site for making such a baseless accusation and then giving him a one star vote on a superior piece of software that a dingus like you couldn't write in a million years. what a lame p.o.s. you are.
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4/15/2005 10:13:29 PM: MArio Flores G
To LOBO TOTAL, I don’t believe you even saw the code, you don’t have any idea of what you are talking about, maybe you just saw the image preview and accuse me of copying something that you have seen done in different ways, with some similar results, but I can assure you that this is different, and voting 1 globe – and rating me poor category, wont stop me from coding VB code, as I know that since I don’t see any of your code posted on PSC, I can guess you are just a fake account. and mostly sure just a jealous person.
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4/15/2005 10:15:47 PM: MArio Flores G
For the Record I hate Fake accounts!!
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4/17/2005 12:16:35 AM: Heriberto Mantilla Santamaría
To LOBO TOTAL
Pense que en esta Web se habían acabado los fantoches, ya veo que no aún existen algunos.
I thought that in this Web the puppets had finished, I already see that not, some are still.
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4/18/2005 1:15:41 AM: Heriberto Mantilla Santamaría
Hello Mario, I wanted to know for that the subclass delays so much in beginning.
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4/18/2005 5:35:36 AM: Richard Mewett
Anonymous & fake user accounts seem to be spreading rapidly. Too many meaningless 1* votes appearing, probably out of jealousy. I give my 5* for great submission. Perhaps an "Appeal" button should be added (similar to report bad submission) so that authors can get the l@mers votes removed.
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4/18/2005 12:53:59 PM: Matthew R. Usner
Good idea. 74 5-globe ratings and 1 1-globe rating is a automatic grounds for "Lame-o" appeal.
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4/19/2005 5:46:33 AM: Richard Mewett
Thanks Matthew. I have sent my suggestion to PSC!
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4/22/2005 4:00:36 AM: Kaizen
In your demo if you set it to balloon and then set the delay time to 0 it not show as a balloon. Apart form that nice work.
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4/22/2005 3:17:35 PM: Knoton
Wow, thanks for sharing. I long to examine the goodies in your code further :-) Hope I will get time for that any time soon :-)
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4/27/2005 9:38:40 AM: Libor Blaheta
Hi, is version 1.1 the final version? Or you are going to release new version next month?
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4/27/2005 12:51:32 PM: MArio Flores G
Enmity PSC Format Suxs, example was unreadable check this
http://web.1asphost.com/marioflores/Extooltip/
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4/29/2005 12:48:38 AM: enmity
MArio, I just have to tell you, the new sample you give me does not work either. I do not know why, just nothing happen.
I am using Simplfied Chinese version of Windows 2003 Server.
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4/29/2005 7:36:38 AM:
Hi,
It is brilliant way of programming and made it great work. :)
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4/29/2005 10:33:07 AM: Libor Blaheta
>> to enmity
ExToolTip is based on ANSI APIs (CreateWindowEx is used to create a tool-tip window) so IMHO it's not possible to display chinese chars in tooltips.
Only replace all ANSI APIs with their Unicode equivalents and than you have unicode usercontrol :-)
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5/3/2005 12:00:25 AM: Kaizen
As a mod you can add mKillTime = Len(Text) * 4 in showTooltip sub so you do not have to add kill time each time you show a tool tip. This will calculate the correct kill time based on the amount of text you have.
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6/2/2005 12:38:58 AM: Daniel Sitnik
Great work!!
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8/25/2005 11:50:54 AM: Moroco
Really Great work, but it crashes under Windows ME .
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8/29/2005 2:09:15 AM: tibisan
SUPREEEME!!! 5 balls all tha way!
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8/30/2005 9:21:36 AM: Baljit Singh
Eyeful tooltip(code)!5 globes from me.
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9/4/2005 6:41:52 PM: Johan A
Good pice of programing, 5 globes from me. It is just great :)
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9/7/2005 8:25:42 PM: Mike Douglas
omg. beautiful. sorry it took so long to play with it.
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5/29/2006 4:02:58 AM: TDMJames
Works on all windows except the listview apparently.
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10/12/2006 7:13:07 PM: Jair Cézar
Is the best !!!
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2/28/2007 4:52:22 PM: Kris Bennett (i00 Productions)
how can i get this working in vista?
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3/15/2007 1:29:29 AM: Kris Bennett (i00 Productions)
ok .. figured it out - how to get working in vista - took me all of 5 mins - thought it would take longer so put it off ...
to get working in vista search for the line that starts "pDraw GetDC(" in the class module ExToolTip and put DoEvents on a new line above it
:)
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4/26/2007 11:23:23 AM: josejoa
Hi Mario, How does this code can fit on the systray? Thank you.
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8/31/2007 9:46:48 PM: Abhijit
Hi Mario,
Great Code! Is it possible to add OnDemand functionality to the tooltip? Thanks!
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12/21/2008 3:28:56 AM: Juned Chhipa
Mario You rocks!
Thank you very much bro.....
love you!
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7/18/2009 3:31:30 AM: Francisco Antonio de Araujo e Souza
Hi Mario!
VB ExTooltip: Coool! 5555555555555 Globes !!!!!!
Great job !!!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!
One of the best programs of the planet-source !
A question:
I have an array of controls in a form:
picture (0), picture (1), picture (2), picture (3), ... picture (n)
Question: How do a different message (tooltiptext) for each picture (x) with just one routine?
Thank you!
Francisco Araujo
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