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Is it possible to use tooltips in a console app?
I am creating a console app with text-based "pseudo-controls" (i.e. screen hot-spots which, if clicked with a mouse, will generate a reaction from the program.) The hot-spots contain symbols (like arrow heads) that suggest their purpose, but there are also plain-text fields (containg purely alphabetic text), which are clickable and produce some reaction. Since they don't have the look-and-feel of a control, it would be nice if I could make a tooltip pop up whenever the mouse is over one of these fields. The tooltip would say something like "click here to ... ".
FWIW, I have recently purchased (but have not yet used) both PBWin 9.01 and Perfect Sync's Console Tools Pro. The availability of the latter might be relevant to this question.
I am creating a console app with text-based "pseudo-controls" (i.e. screen hot-spots which, if clicked with a mouse, will generate a reaction from the program.) The hot-spots contain symbols (like arrow heads) that suggest their purpose, but there are also plain-text fields (containg purely alphabetic text), which are clickable and produce some reaction. Since they don't have the look-and-feel of a control, it would be nice if I could make a tooltip pop up whenever the mouse is over one of these fields. The tooltip would say something like "click here to ... ".
FWIW, I have recently purchased (but have not yet used) both PBWin 9.01 and Perfect Sync's Console Tools Pro. The availability of the latter might be relevant to this question.
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