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Tooltip woes -

I want to add a tooltip or balloon to my program. I can't seem to find the control anywhere (ToolTip). I've tried to set a reference to shlwapi.dll but VB won't let me reference it. I also have the Common Controls v6.0 loaded, but no ToolTip. Any ideas?

 

Tooltip woes -
I want to add a tooltip or balloon to my program. I can't seem to find the control anywhere (ToolTip). I've tried to set a reference to shlwapi.dll but VB won't let me reference it. I also have the Common Controls v6.0 loaded, but no ToolTip. Any ideas?

Not your ordinary tooltip... -
I have been searching all night for a tooltip that behaves like the the tooltip on the start button. When you login the first time under Windows 2000, a tooltip automatically pops up. That's what I want! I don't want the mouse to have anything to do with it. I have downloaded many s

Flakey ToolTip behavior -
I have a ToolTip on a TextBox control. When I hover the cursor over the TextBox the ToolTip appears as expected. But if the ToolTip disappears after it's AutoPopDelay time has expired or if I click on the TextBox while the ToolTip is still showing, then the ToolTip will not appear ag

Overlapping tool tips -
When a listview item is clicked, it's value is written to a textbox, and the textbox's tooltip is set thus. Dim tt As New ToolTip tt.SetToolTip(txtItem, strToolTip) Then a different item is clicked, and so a new value and tooltip is set. But if the second to

programmatically show tooltip -
is there a way to show a tooltip on demand? (I'm thinking maybe the "mousemove event" ??) What I'm trying to do is to have a tooltip show a series of 3 successive messages--each separated by 1 second intervals. (rather than trying to shove all of the info into one big lon

[2005] ToolstripMenuItem - Tooltip not displaying -
I have on the main menu (menustrip) a few of the toolstripmenuitems dispaly setting as image and then in the tooltip what the button is for. For some reason the tooltip is not displaying. I have a tooltip control an also have tried Autotooltip to true and to false.

Question about ToolTip Control -
Hi. I have added a ToolTip Control to my form and assigned some ToolTip text to each of my buttons etc. However, the ToolTip doesn't display if a button is disabled. Ideally, i would still like the ToolTip to display, whether a button is disabled or enabled. I have set the "Sho

tooltip does not appear ( IDE BUG ) -
i have created a simple active x control with a picture box on it using that control in a project , the tooltip i set to my activex control , is displayed . The tooltip does not appear if make an exe out if it. I mean tooltip is working in vb ide but not in exe. I am usi

Balloon ToolTip Click Help -
Pretty basic question, but i cant seem to find an answer... What is the code to detect when the user clicks on the ToolTip. (What i am trying to do is change a registry value when the user clicks on the tooltip so that my program knows not to show the tooltip again) Thanks

[2008] Balloon Tooltip Does Not Work !! -
hi i use to below code to make my Tooltip like balloon. but it dose not show any Tooltip: Code: Dim Tooltip As New ToolTip Tooltip.ToolTipTitle = "Title" Tooltip.IsBalloon = True Tooltip.ToolTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error Tooltip.Show("Text To View", Me.

How to format TOOLTIPS -
Hi, I want to make a linefeed for a tooltip and to use bold text for parts of the tooltip. Is there a way to do this without creating a selfmade tooltip? Franky

SQL and tooltip -
Hi, I want to retrieve a value from a field of a table. How can I assign this value in the text of a tooltip. The tooltip will appear when the user will move the mouse on a textbox.Any ideas?

Placing ToolTipText directly above Listview item -
Hello, when I move my mouse cursor over a Listview item it shows a ToolTip. The problem is when I move the mouse over the first item, the ToolTip is shown over the third and fourth item. The ToolTip won't refresh until I move the mouse over the ToolTip. This means I constantly need to

CSS Tooltips -
I'm adding a css tooltip to my website. Using it, i'll be able to show the information of a particular image. I've found something called qTip and the tooltip is easy to add. However I wonder if they are a good idea overall - do you think it is worth adding? One thing I see is that, us

Tooltip Text -
How can I show a tooltip depending on the mouse location on a control. Is there a way to make a tooltip show without using the tooltip text property?

Am I the only one in the world with this problem -
Tooltips only seem to work in a ListView control if the view is set to lvwReport. Try it for yourself. Insert items into a listview and put something in each item's tooltip. If the view is set to lvwReport then the tooltips appear ok. Set it to lvwIcon, lvwList or lvwSmallIcon, then

Setthing Tooltip for Combobox Items -
How do I set tooltip value for each combo box items such that the tooltip displays when I scroll down the list and highlight any item. I can make it to show the tooltip only for the selected item after I click but now when I mouse over or highlight. Any ideas. Thank you,

UserControl & ToolTip -
Could somebody give me some help on how to use a ToolTip on a UserControl? I have a UserControl with some TextBoxes on it & I am adding the UC to a panel on my form at runtime. Now I want to set the ToolTip text for one of the TextBoxes, but I can't figure out how to do that. I

Is there any solution to this (ToolTip) -
Hi everyone, it seems I can’t find any method to hide or clear instantly the ToolStripMenuButton’s ToolTip when the button is clicked. It hides the tooltip but not fast enough. When the button is clicked the app takes the screen shot of the desktop. I don’t want the tooltip appea

Image/Picture in Tooltip -
Anyone know if there's a way to place an image or picture (bmp/jpg, etc) in a tooltip window? I have a tooltip class that uses the SendMessage API, etc. I got the tooltip class from this project. I know that I can add icons, but I'd like to be able to add some sort of image, etc. A

[2005] ToolTip margins -
Is there anyway to adjust the margins of a ToolTip so that there is a larger gap between the edge of the ToolTip and the text, like you get with the desktop icons in Windows?

[2005] Adding a tooltip to buttons -
Question 1: How do I add a tooltip to a button? or any other thing for the matter, So when you hold your mouse over, it gives a small description, I have made a tooltip, but how do I get it to show on mouse over?

[2005] Tooltip Font -
Hello! I have a tooltip that when certain cells of a datagridview are hovered over, it displays the values from a lookup of a table. But, i can't get it to align properly so that it displays nicely for the user. I think the only way around it is to change the font of the toolt

How to display tooltip [Word] -
Hi I want display a tooltip or else like tooltip for a particular text in a document. But I don't want comments. If i place my cursor over the text then i want to display some text like tooltip. Is ther any possiblity for that..?

Setting a ToolTip for a DataGridView -
Is it possible to set a ToolTip for a DataGridView and not just it's columns. I just want to be able to show a ToolTip when the user hovers the mouse over the grid. Thanks,

Problem in showing the Tooltip in Firefox 2.0... -
In my ASP .NET application, i am using the tooltip options of the ASP Server controls. Let say my Label controls is upper right corner of the Server page. I have set the tooltip for this Label control which is line of sentence say 15 words. In IE 6.0 / 7.0 the entire tooltip is show

combo box tooltip -
is there any way to give tooltip to items in the combobox. ie, when placing mouse over the item in the combobox the tooltip should display. for example : if the combobox contain id of the person, while selecting the id the tooltip should display the name of the person.

[2005] How to adjust ToolTip Font size -
I'm working on scaling the application based on the current resolution of the screen. but I'm facing a problem that if I scale down the control size with its font then the text displayed in tooltip is distorted due to small font size. So I want to make size of tooltip to bigger when it

[02/03] ToolTip Problem -
Dear All, I have problems when using tooltip. I need in my problen when I click a button show a message in tooltip and a few minutes the tooltip. I'm using a standard code like below ToolTip1.SetToolTip(TextBox1, "Do not leave this blank") It is work when I click bu

[2005] gridview image item SQL tooltip -
I have a gridview and would like to: 1. create a tooltip for image items in the gridview- I can't seem to find the tooltip property for items in the gridview. 2. the gridview data is taken from an SQL stored procedure, I'd like to make the tooltip dynamic based on a field from th

How to programmetically set tooltip -
My application is language dependent. The language is swtiched by selecting a language of preference prior to loggin on the application. I then initialize the form's labels with appropriate selected language at the Form Load event. I have tooltip component in my form. I seem to b

[2005] Tooltip over datagrid column -
Hi, We have a datagrid column say Spaces and the description for this column is present in a hidden column in the same datagrid. We show this description in the tooltip of the Spaces column We are using the inbuilt tooltip property of the data grid for achieving this functional

Getting tooltip of a slider.. -
Is it possible to get the tooltip of a slider bar of another program. I need to know if its tooltip is enabled or disabled, that way I can tell more about the program. data = SendMessage(hwnd, TBM_GETTOOLTIPS, 0, 0) debut.print data The hwnd is right but it always

Tooltip question -
Hello all, I've got the following problem. When the mouse hovers over a field (in my ASP .NET app), the tooltip text is shown. But it's only shown for a few seconds. Is it possible to set the timer ONLY for this application to show the tooltip until the user leaves the field? Tha

How to set the DataGridView ToolTip duration -
How do I set the DGV column tooltip duration to something other than the default 3 seconds? There is a property for the tooltip text, but I don't see one for duration.

setting tooltip on textbox -
There is a control named as tooltip. I am using it on a form. It shows me the tooltip on textbox when I bring mouse over the textbox. Is it possible that when the textbox gets focus(using tab key) then toolip gets displayed on textbox. Please help and guide.

Tooltip for a push button -
Hello! (VS 2005). I got a dialog box with push buttons. Every button has its tooltip, that may be seen. But after a button has been clicked (and had performed what it should, and I return to my my dialog box) I can't see Tooltip of the clicked button. How can I change the behavior

I need a help with tooltip -
I have a tooltip I want to show it while I am typing on a textbox. Is it possible to show tooltip without mouse over?

[2008] Tooltip for menu item -
Hello Everyone, I am using Visual Studio 2008 (with focus in VB.NET). I want to add tooltip to the menu items in the menus I have created. Now I know that menu items have a property call tooltip and if I type text there, tooltips are displayed. But I want to use tooltip control f

Setting User Control Property Only Sometimes -
I have a usercontrol that I use in multiple windows. I want to use tooltip with this usercontrol but only under one window. How do I set the tooltip to be see only under that window and not all of them. I place the tooltip under the usercontrol code. Hope that is clear enough, than