Adding pop up help on command buttons

[tsison7]

I have several buttons on a form which a user can use to navigate around my
database.

I'd like to have a textbox that I will appear at the bottom of the form that
will change whenever the user hovers above one of the control buttons. How
is the best way I can achieve this?

 

[Baz]

If you put some text in the button's ControlTip Text property, it will pop
up as if by magic when the mouse hovers over the button.

 

[tsison7]

Magic!!! That's what I was looking for. But is there also an event for when
the mouse hovers over a control?

 

[Baz]

In Access the MouseMove event is the best you can do.

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

Here's a short tutorial on TheScripts site that explains the use of the
MouseMove event and gives an example. What you do, in a nutshell, is use the
control's MouseMove event to trigger something (such as a pop up message)
then use the form's Detail section MouseMove event to reset (make the pop up
disappear) the behavior.

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread648549.html

 

[Jeff Boyce]

What kind of control? The command button is a control, too...

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[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

The MouseMove event is available for all major controls on a form, including
command buttons.

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