Display data in a field using the controltip text property?

[Guest]

Is there a way to display the full data field when the mouse curser moves
over the field? The controltip text property cannot display the actual data.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

The example below will display the value in a label. You can use
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdZoomBox to display the data in the same dialog you get
when you press Shift+F2, but you don't want to do that in the MouseMove
event procedure, as the *previous* control still has the focus at that
stage. You can do it in the DoubleClick event procedure, though - see the
second example below ...

Private Sub Address_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As
Single, Y As Single)

'Check first to avoid flicker.
If Me.lblStatus.Caption <> Me.Address.Value Then
Me.lblStatus.Caption = Me.Address.Value
End If

End Sub

Private Sub Address_DblClick(Cancel As Integer)

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdZoomBox

End Sub

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[Brendan Reynolds]

BTW: I had no success trying to do this with the ControlTipText property.
You can set the property equal to the Value property, sure, but when I added
the code to the MouseMove event procedure, the Control Tip was never shown.
You could try Stephen Leban's ToolTip class instead ...

http://www.lebans.com/tooltip.htm

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