Re: [Win32Lib] tooltip hints for menu items ?
- Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jun 19, 2002
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Tone, Well, I don't think that's exactly true, because tooltips *don't* usually show up in a status bar (a text bar at the bottom of a window), but rather somewhere "near" the mouse cursor when it stayed over a control for some length of time. (I guess there *might* be some "style"*(?) settings for tooltip hints which *could* make them show up in the status bar, but that's not how I've seen them usually used.) But I suspect you're right about tooltip hints not being able to be made for menu items because there's already text there. I just wanted to be able to *expand* upon the meaning of the existing text with a tooltip hint for any new users of my program. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: <tone.skoda at gmx.net> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [Win32Lib] tooltip hints for menu items ? > > It is ussualy done so that tooltips are shown in status bar. It would look a > little strange if tooltip would be displayed for menu item because you > already have menu item text to read. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 7:53 AM > Subject: [Win32Lib] tooltip hints for menu items ? > > > > > > Can menubar items (top level) & menu items have tooltip hints set? I > > assumed they could, but can't get them to do so. > > > > Dan Moyer > > > > > > > > >