Raising Tip's Pop-Up Event on GotFocus ?

[Martin]

Dear VB.NETers,

Does any one of you know how to raise up a tip's message when a control got
focus. For your info that I am using tooltip object and add it to two of my
controls on the form. Now, I'd like those two controls will raise the popup
tip's when they got focus. I know the got focus event, but what i need to do
to call the popup tip's event.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

There isnt method to force a tooltip to show. Only thing I can
recomend is to set the tooltips initialdelay to a very low value so the
tooltip shows quicker.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...windowsformstooltipclassinitialdelaytopic.asp

Ken
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Dear VB.NETers,

Does any one of you know how to raise up a tip's message when a control got
focus. For your info that I am using tooltip object and add it to two of my
controls on the form. Now, I'd like those two controls will raise the popup
tip's when they got focus. I know the got focus event, but what i need to do
to call the popup tip's event.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Guest]

Use Windows API
Public Declare Function SetCursorPos Lib "user32" Alias "SetCursorPos"
(ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer) As Integer
to trick the application.
For ex: Set cursor over textBox2 after textBox2 focused:

Dim mypt As Point
mypt = New Point(Me.TextBox2.Location.X + 5, Me.TextBox2.Location.Y + 3)
Dim mypt1 As Point = Me.PointToScreen(mypt)
SetCursorPos(mypt1.X, mypt1.Y)

It works fine.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Rulin,
Any reason you are using an API rather then using the .NET Cursor object
itself?

Something like:

Dim mypt As Point = TextBox2.Location
mypt.Offset(5, 3)
Cursor.Position = Me.PointToScreen(mypt)

For details see System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Guest]

You're right.

Rulin,
Any reason you are using an API rather then using the .NET Cursor object
itself?

Something like:

Dim mypt As Point = TextBox2.Location
mypt.Offset(5, 3)
Cursor.Position = Me.PointToScreen(mypt)

For details see System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.

Hope this helps
Jay