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When I hover my mouse cursor over "My computer", "Network
neighbourhood" or "Recycle bin" a tooltip appears. I would love
to have these for my PB/DLL programs. Can it be done?
You bet, we had a huge discussion on tooltips a while back, let me see if I can find the link:
Code:
'----------------------------------------------------------
'ToolTips
Type dField
fName As Asciiz * 80
Size As Integer
Alignment As Integer
End Type
Type ListData
Columns As Integer
Fields(0 To 80) As dField
ToolTip As Asciiz * 30 'Testing
End Type
'
In PBMAIN:
Dim ToolTxt(1 To 9) As Asciiz * 65
Dim ti As TOOLINFO
Local hWnd_ToolTip As Long
hWnd_ToolTip = CreateWindowEx( 0, "tooltips_class32", "", %TTS_ALWAYSTIP, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ByVal 0&, GetModuleHandle(ByVal 0&), ByVal 0&)
ti.cbSize = Len(ti)
ti.uFlags = %TTF_SUBCLASS Or %TTF_IDISHWND
ti.hWnd = hDlg
For lLoop = 1 To 9
'THE WM_USER + 2047 IS the first button, it can be done differently
'Pull string from re source file, or use an array here:
LoadString g_hInst,(%WM_USER + 2047) + lLoop,ToolTxt(lLoop), SizeOf(ToolTxt(lLoop))
ti.uId = GetDlgItem(hDlg, (%WM_USER + 2047) + lLoop)
ti.lpszText = VarPtr(ToolTxt(lLoop))
SendMessage hWnd_ToolTip , %TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, ByVal VarPtr(ti)
Next
'
'
'
'
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Scott
Scott Turchin
MCSE, MCP+I http://www.tngbbs.com
---------------------- True Karate-do is this: that in daily life, one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility; and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. -Gichin Funakoshi
PS, search for "Tooltip tool tip" and find the post by me...
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Scott
Scott Turchin
MCSE, MCP+I http://www.tngbbs.com
---------------------- True Karate-do is this: that in daily life, one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility; and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. -Gichin Funakoshi
I found your post, entitled "ToolTip for ImgButtons" - many thanks.
Perhaps I'm missing something, or I didn't make myself clear.
I'm not talking about tooltips working from a running program,
I'm talking about the tooltips you get by just hovering over a
desktop icon. I've only seen it with the "My Computer",
"Network neighbourhood" and "Recycle bin" icons so perhaps it's
something specific to Microsoft and we can't do it. Hope not.
Keith,
The text of the tooltip is stored in a key whose value is InfoTip in the registry.
The standard desktop icons are in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\... , but user shortcut
tooltips could presumably be associated with the registered icon for the file or
program elsewhere in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
I can't find a way to make a conventional shortcut icon on the Desktop
(i.e. a .LNK or .PIF file in \Windows\Desktop) show a tooltip.
Files with extension .URL (i.e. shortcuts to web sites) in \Windows\Desktop
always show a tooltip, as do executables (.EXE) placed there. It is
possible to put a program on the Desktop by putting its details in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\... in the Registry and a tooltip is then possible,
as described above.
On my desktop, Psion have done this with their PsiWin program which
connects to my PDA.
I was wondering why the commercial programs I have seen don't
have a DeskTop InfoTip but you confirm that at least one of
them does. It would seem such a nice feature to arrange at
install time and I would have thought it would be popular.
I will have a go at setting one up but I do not know much about
the registry yet and am therefore a little wary. Many thanks
for sharing your knowledge.
Semen
Your CreateShortcut subroutine looks very interesting and I
will experiment. Many thanks.
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