Can a MousePointer show TEXT?

[Guest]

Is there a way to programmitically make a mousepointer show text? This would
be great for drag and drop. Maybe I could create a temporary label that
travels with the mouse?

I don't know, but if anyone does would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

 

[Nick Coe \(UK\)]

Is there a way to programmitically make a mousepointer
show text?
This would be great for drag and drop. Maybe I could
create a
temporary label that travels with the mouse?

I don't know, but if anyone does would be greatly
appreciated.

Bill

ControlTip Text in a controls property sheet or the
ControlTipText property of a given control in vba. That
won't follow the mouse pointer around _unless_ you
superimpose a transparent control over the controls you're
interested in and use the ControlTipText property of
that.... Not sure if that wouldn't cause more trouble than
it was worth actually.

I vaguely remember someone doing something like this, but
having searched for a while cannot find a reference, sorry.

Good luck

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Nick Coe (UK)
AccHelp v1.01 Access Application Help File Builder
http://www.alphacos.co.uk/
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[Nick Coe \(UK\)]

Is there a way to programmitically make a mousepointer
show text?
This would be great for drag and drop. Maybe I could
create a
temporary label that travels with the mouse?

I don't know, but if anyone does would be greatly
appreciated.

Bill

I knew there was some more stuff on this...

Stephen Lebans site:

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Another option is here:
http://www.lebans.com/tooltip.htm
A97ToolTip.zip is a database containing a custom ToolTip
class for use
in A97 or higher.

A2KToolTip.zip is a database containing both an API and Form
based
ToolTip solutions. The Form based solution can be used for
forms in
DataSheet view.

Enhanced features include:

Selectable delay times for Toolltip to first appear
Selectable delay times for Tooltip to dissappear
Selectable Text Color
Selectable Background Color
Selectable Margins
Specify Tooltip size
Add a title to the Tooltip in Bold
Selectable Icon for the Tooltip
ToolTips for Lines, Boxes, any rectangular area on your Form

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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can
benefit.

UNQUOTE*****************

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Nick Coe (UK)
AccHelp v1.01 Access Application Help File Builder
http://www.alphacos.co.uk/
Download Free Copy
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[Peter's Software]

Bill,

You can use a small form to do this so you can drag text over other
controls and even from one form to another. That's the approach we used
when we created our Drag-N-Dropper for MS Access product. More info:
http://www.peterssoftware.com/dd.htm

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com

 

[Guest]

Hi Peter,

I've seen ur website. Nice stuff there.

Thanks for the tip. How do I get this small form to travel with the mouse
pointer? Maybe just create it as a borderless dialog pop-up, give it the
focus and the mouse would naturally drag it? Hmm, let me try that.

BTW, I would have just bought ur software if I could have paid with credit
card and downloaded it. The sending a check method is just too cumbersome.

Last question, it would be very useful for me to be able to drag a field
over continuous forms and have the data drop into whatever field my mouse is
over at the time (even a new, uninitialized record). However, it seems it
only will drop the data into the active record. This means I have to select
the record first then do the drag n drop. Kind of an extra step I'd like to
avoid. Is there some way to accomplish this or does your software do the
automatically?

I guess I am saying I would like the mousemove to have the same effect as
clicking on the field then actually MouseUp to deposit the data.

 

[Peter's Software]

Getting the form to drag with the mouse took me 3 api calls, one to
"GetCursorPos" to find where the pointer is, "GetWindowRect" to find
where the pop-up form is and one to "MoveWindow" to move the pop-up
form.

You can register Drag-N-Dropper with your credit card via links on this
page: http://www.peterssoftware.com/dd.htm, and this page:
http://www.peterssoftware.com/buy.htm

With regard to continuous forms, our current version (4) of
Drag-N-Dropper does not support them. When you register, we can send
you our beta version 5 of DD that DOES support continuous forms.

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com