tooltips

How can I display a tooltip showing the value of a trackbar in WinForms

I'm new to C# and WinForms so please excuse me is this is a bit of a newbie question. I'm trying to add a tooltip to my TrackBar control which shows the current value of the bar as you drag it. I've instantiated a ToolTip object and tried the following handler code but it doesn't show any tooltip: private void trackBar1_Scroll(object s...

How to hide a taskbar balloon at will?

It's very easy to force a taskbar icon to display a balloon tooltip: all I need to do is set the NIF_INFO flag when calling Shell_NotifyIcon( NIM_MODIFY, ... ), and the balloon appears, no problem. Now, I want to be able to hide the balloon when I no longer need it, as well, but I can't find a way to do that. I tried clearing the NIF_IN...

Flex 3 Tooltip

I am using a custom advanced auto-complete component. Selected items do not have a tooltip by default, but I would like to use the label as my tooltip. The arraylist allQuestions is the dataprovider to my component. <components:AdvancedAutoComplete id="addQuizQuestions_txt" width="800" height="300" dataProvider="{allQuestions}" labelF...

Show jScrollPane in Qtip

I use Jscrollpane for my new project. which works great on the page. The page works fine but when it is called inside the qtip, the customized bar disappears. See the customized scroll bar 81.171.199.24/qtip/scrollpanel.html See qtip example (click snowy Owl link): 81.171.199.24/qtip/index.html The developer from qtip suggest I shoul...

What is the easiest way to make tooltips behave how I want

I don't like the default ToolTip behavior. First, I don't like that, after tooltip is shown for "AutoPopDelay" miliseconds, it disappears and don't appear anymore if you move the mouse over the control again. Second, I don't like that AutoPopDelay is limited to 5000 miliseconds. I found one way to make tooltip always reappear on mouse...

WPF DataTemplate: How to create a tooltip just-in-time?

I am using DataTemplates to render items in an ItemsControl. I want to show a tooltip for each item. If I use a binding such as ToolTip="{Binding MyToolTip,Mode=OneWay}", WPF gets the tooltip once at the beginning and does not update the tooltip when it is opened. My items implement INotifyPropertyChanged, so in principle I could genera...

How to set up Win32 tooltips control with dynamic unicode text?

I am having some trouble provding a Win32 tooltips control with dynamic text in unicode format. I use the following code to set up the control: INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icc; icc.dwSize = sizeof(INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX); icc.dwICC = ICC_WIN95_CLASSES; InitCommonControlsEx( HWND hwnd_tip = CreateWindowExW(0, TOOLTIPS_CLASSW, NULL, WS_POPUP |...

Ideas on how to display a modeless message box as a tooltip

I need to display a modeless message box whenever a user hovers over a menu item. I can't use messagebox.show(...) because it is a modal. So what I did was create a seperate windows form and display the form using the hover event on the menu item. I have 2 problems: 1) When the windows form displays the menu loses its visibility. 2) The...

Modifying or hiding a form's caption tooltip

We have an MDI form which contains some number of child forms which have varying captions showing the currently loaded document's filename. When the child forms are maximized their title text gets placed in the parent window's title bar which often results in the text being too long to fit in the bar and Windows is nice enough to add el...

Adding Screentips to a label

Hello. I know it is possible to add a tooltip to just about every element in Visual Studio, but I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to add screentips to a label? I have 5 images I'd like to trigger when the user hovers their mouse above the element (a label). I have 5 labels: Form, Crown, Trunk, Root Flare, and Roots and 5...

WinForm ToolTip.SetToolTip is Hanging my application :(

Hi folks, I'm trying to set a ToolTip onto a control and it's hanging my application. I programatically add PictureBox's to a FlowLayoutPanel. Works great. I then pick out one of the PictureBoxes to set the ToolTip and .. boom! app hung :( If I set the ToolTip at the point where i first create each picturebox and add it to the flowlay...

How do I remove a tooltip currently bound to a control?

I'm currently adding a tooltip to a label like so: ToolTip LabelToolTip = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(); LabelToolTip.SetToolTip(this.LocationLabel, text); When I need to change this tooltip as the label's text changes, I try doing the same to add a new tooltip. Unfortunately, the old tooltip remains under the new one, which is r...

Is there a way to set the delay time of tooltips being displayed on a particular component in java swing?

I'm trying to set tooltips on a JEditorPane. The problem is that the method which I use to determine what tooltip text to show is fairly CPU intensive - and so I would like to only show it after the mouse has stopped for a short amount of time - say 1 second. I know I can use :- ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setInitialDelay() however ...

jquery onmouseover of an image/link shows a div at the same position (tooltip)

i want hover over an image -> which is in an link during i'm over the image should popup (like a tooltip) an div, which i can fill also with some stuff - any idea?! $this is the link which includes an img: i found the image within and wanted to span a div above the image and make some jquery effects which lets the user get the info, th...

Is there a way to have the title attribute of an html element to display for a longer time?

Without using tooltip plugins or such, is there a way to extend the duration of time that the title attribute of an html element will display for? thanks! ...

TTabSheet hints in Delphi

I want a TPageControl and some TTabSheets, with 'per tabsheet' tooltip hints visible as I hover over each tab in turn. Is there any way of getting this effect in Delphi 2009? ...

Tooltips are possible in dropdowns in IE6?

Hi, Am using a dropdown control in my web application. I want tooltips to be displayed as i scroll down the list in the dropdown, and the tooltips should be the text that the focus is currently on. This works fine in IE7 and Mozilla, but IE6 does not display tooltips. Any suggestions here? Thanks in advance, Geetha ...

cannot load custom tooltips in silverlight

Hi,, I have created a custoom tooltip for a lineseries chart. however my problem is that this custom tooltip is never loaded..(I still get the default tooltip i.e. X-value) Is there something I should be doing differently?? page.xaml <Style x:Key="ttip" TargetType="chartingToolkit:LineDataPoint"> <Setter Property="Tem...

Using RadToolTip with RadComboBox without using ItemTempalte

Is there a way to connect a RadToolTip to each item within a RadComboBox (having a different tool tip come up for each item in the combo box) without having to use the ItemTemplate of the RadComboBox? The reason is because I like the built-in implementation of the combo box styles, etc. and don't want to write it all from scratch within...

Tooltips won't show second time form is created.

I have a dialog box with controls that is popped up and when a control is moused over the controls a tooltip is displayed. However, if I close the box then re-display it no tooltips will work. Here is a portion of my code. I am initializing tooltipOn when the form is loaded to null. I have done a trace and tooltip1.Show() does get called...