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Multi Line Tooltips
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5/9/2000 10:12:26 AM |
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Gordon Robinson
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Are you fed up with the fact that you can only display one line in vb tooltips. This class allows multiple line tooltips.
It also allows you to specify the Maximum Width of the tooltip, the delay until it appears, the length of time it is visible and whether the tooltip is centered below the control.
I have added support for setting the font that is used as well.
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 5/9/2000 2:38:41 PM: Kenman
Excellent work. I will be using this class for the rest of my natural vb programming life - or until MS splits - whichever comes first. :) Nice job!
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5/9/2000 4:10:28 PM: siph0n
great example, very easy to use.
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5/10/2000 3:50:00 AM: viztopiaman
Very impressive and easy to implement!
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5/10/2000 9:06:14 AM: Gordon Robinson
I have added a MaxWidth Property to this class to allow users to be able to specify the Maximum width of the tooltip in pixels. A CenterTip parameter has also been added to the AddControl method which will center the tooltip below the control. The sample code has been updated to demonstrate these changes.
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5/10/2000 9:43:30 AM: Gordon Robinson
Me Again !! I have added VisibleTime and DelayTime properties to allow users to specify how long the tooltip is visible for and how long it takes to appear.
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6/12/2000 8:42:57 AM: Tito
I'm looking for a way to change the font of a tooltip window using some sort of sendmessage command (not sure which api function) anyone out there know? - tristan@twcny.rr.com
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6/13/2000 7:51:23 PM: John Brandon
Been looking for something like this for some time. Great work! However, I have not been able to use for Label.ToolTips. If I am doing something wrong, please let me know. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
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6/21/2000 5:23:19 AM: Gordon Robinson
Thanks to Arkadiy Olovyannikov for pointing that this code only worked in the IDE. I have added a call to InitCommonControls in the class_initialise event to fix this problem.
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6/21/2000 8:52:09 AM: SpoogeMonkey
This is great! I've been looking for this for a LONG time. Any idea how to change the font?
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6/21/2000 9:41:26 AM: Gordon Robinson
I have added a property which allows users to specify the font that is to be used in the tooltips.
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6/22/2000 11:41:01 PM: Tito
I sent a version of this tooltip class with some modifications to gordon, if he doesn't post it and anyone wants it from me, just email me. it includes everything his has, and also more time editing, and forecolor/backcolor/tooltip text changing.. HUGE thanks to gordon for showing me how to change tooltip fonts, with that. BTW the tooltip class i have has more features than i've seen any free-code ones have.. post it gordon!
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3/29/2001 7:51:51 AM: billet
This is just what I needed. Has any one solved Tool Tips for labels or combo boxes ?
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8/1/2001 5:52:04 AM: H
Great code
Cheers
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1/30/2003 5:08:10 PM:
Mr. Robinson,
This is good code. However, when I try to run it, I can't because I'm missing the Tooltiproject.dll that is unique to this code. Could you e-mail it to me? Did I miss something? My address is mellencolie@yahoo.com
Thanks for you help!!
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3/6/2003 4:18:26 PM:
It works pretty OK!
I've updated the code with the mods from: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_1042369 6.html
Thanks!
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3/13/2003 2:38:59 PM:
This really must be great. The only problem is, VB gives me an error saying tooltiproject.dll is missing. please e-mail it to me: alex2588@hotmail.com. i really want to be able to use this code.
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7/5/2003 3:50:59 PM:
Great code. However, I'm missing the tooltipproject.dll.
Can someone e-mail it to me.
nickc_temp@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance.
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11/18/2004 11:46:03 AM:
Great job! I totally agree with everyone else. REally well done. Noticed some odd behavior in association with datagrids (multiple tooltips coming up). Outside of that, a really nice job. Thank you for sharing it.
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8/27/2005 7:54:41 PM: Moroco
Very simple and great work .
In your example, you show tooltip for 2 controls with diffrent messages by the same instance. I modified it to show icons, but it display the lastest icon fot the 2 tooltips .
5 globe anyway .
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