Showing a ToolTip without MouseOver

[DGS]

Hi

 

I've been wanting to programmatically show a tooltip over an object on my forms, similarly to how the XP Balloon Tip appears on the task tray.

 

Has anyone achieved this?

 

I've seen a lot of work on the BalloonTip control by Peter Rilling, but this covers a lot more functionality than I'm looking (plus I program in VB!)

 

Any thoughts appreciated.

David.

[Setsuko]

If you want to do this through the standard ToolTip control, unfortunately you have to wait until the Whidbey release later this year.

[homebrew311]

Hey Dave,

I guess your best bet would have to be creating a seperate form that gets displayed under your certain circumstances. For instance,

[homebrew311]

woops, just read off of this one.

 

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim TheForm As New Form()

Dim TheLabel As New Label()

TheForm.Controls.Add(TheLabel)

TheLabel.Text = "This is just a test."

TheForm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None

TheForm.Width = 80

TheForm.Height = 20

TheLabel.Location = New Point(0, 0)

TheForm.TopMost = True

TheForm.ShowInTaskbar = False

TheForm.Show()

TheForm.Location = New Point(Me.Location.X + Button1.Location.X, Me.Location.Y + Button1.Location.Y)

End Sub

 

You should probably spend more time jazzing the form up, but thats just about the best i can do for you (i'm pretty new at vb.net). Hope this helps!

[PlausiblyDamp]

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82337 as done by our very own dynamic_sysop.

 

Be nice and thank him ;)