Denaes Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 I see them all over on almost every application, where you hold your mouse over a control (label, button, etc) and a lil (usually yellow, white or bauge) rectangle pops up with a few words of wisdom, or sometimes a whole slew of lines explaining the function of the control. I just didn't notice any way to do this that jumped out at me and I'm not even sure exactly what its called, so my searches yeilded no results. This isn't imperitive, but it would be neat to learn how to do if anyone knows :) Quote
JABE Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Read up the Tooltip class at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsToolTipClassTopic.asp. Quote
Mehyar Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 Simply drag a tooltip object from the toolbox to the form you want to apply tooltips on. Then set the tip property on the control to the text you want to show.(This property is shown in the properties window in the Visual studio .NET designer) Hope this helps, Quote Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today
Denaes Posted September 22, 2003 Author Posted September 22, 2003 Oh, so they are called tool tips... it adds to the property window of existing tools. Thats neat :) Thank you Quote
AlexCode Posted September 24, 2003 Posted September 24, 2003 Just to add some info... If you like the tooltip "Baloon Type" that shows on windows XP you can find it on http://www.codeproject.com Quote Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.
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