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Re: OT-Making a window dialog .. and balloons: Pete

• Posted by Pete Stoner <stoner.pete at gmail.com> Jul 05, 2006
• 516 views

Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> Pete Stoner wrote:
> > >snipped
> > 
> > Kenneth, If you want a tooltip to show more than the standard 80 characters
snipped
> 
> but I would like to submit a further question:
> 
> if you open the dialog to choose a folder by the selectDirectory(), you will
> see the system context help '?' button to the upper right, near the 'x'.
> Try it clicking everywhere on the tree and will get a very elegant tooltip,
> rectangular but well spaced all around the text, and shadowed: 
> do you know perhaps how to obtain these effects?
> 
> Thank you
> antonio

Hi Antonio,

It seems that is just another flag when doing the createEx for your window. From
the MS docs..

WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP
Includes a question mark in the title bar of the window. When the user clicks
the question mark, the cursor changes to a question mark with a pointer. If the
user then clicks a child window, the child receives a WM_HELP message. The child
window should pass the message to the parent window procedure, which should call
the WinHelp function using the HELP_WM_HELP command. The Help application
displays a pop-up window that typically contains help for the child window.

WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP cannot be used with the WS_MAXIMIZEBOX or WS_MINIMIZEBOX
styles.

I haven't tried this.. let us know how you get on!

PeteS