Showing hints using DDT

[Paulo J. S. Jabardo]

First of all, I would like to say that I just purchased PBDLL6.0
and I find the product great. I'm beginning to enjoy it a lot.
Nice job from PB.

I would like to know if it is possible to show hints using DDT
the mouse stops over a control (a button for instance). The
pbnote example does this using API but I have no idea on doing
this using DDT.

Thanks for any suggestion...

[Guest]

hi paulo,
lance edmonds posted a example of doing a ddt toolbar with hints(tooltips) in the source code forum sometime ago. here is the url: http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=23151

you will then need to process the %wm_notify message in the main callback for the dlg:
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local lptooltip as tooltiptext ptr
static ztext as asciiz*255

select case cbmsg
...
case %wm_notify
lptooltip = cblparam
if @lptooltip.hdr.code = %ttn_needtext then
loadstring ghinst, @lptooltip.hdr.idfrom, ztext, sizeof(ztext)
@lptooltip.lpsztext = varptr(ztext)
end if
exit function
...
end select
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hope this helps
adam

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[this message has been edited by adam ritchie (edited april 02, 2000).]

[Paulo J. S. Jabardo]

Thank you very much Adam. This will certainly help.
Paulo

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