Something like tooltip

[juergen]

Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen

 

[cp]

You can get a tooltip to appear any time you like, including after a
click.
Plus, you can always create your won tooltip control which encapsulates
the .NET tooltip control.
There are also lots of 3rd party tooltip-like controls available if you
need something fancy!

cp

 

[juergen]

Thanks for the quick answer.

How can I get a tooltip to appear any time I like?
If I knew that my problems would be solved I guess.

bye juergen

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

juergen,

You can call the Show method on the Tooltip class to show it.

Hope this helps.

 

[juergen]

Hello again,

now I see the problem. I didn't mention that I use Visual Studio 2003 and
..Net 1.1 not .Net 2.0.
There is no Show() method in .Net 1.1.

Bye juergen

juergen,

You can call the Show method on the Tooltip class to show it.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Thanks for the quick answer.

How can I get a tooltip to appear any time I like?
If I knew that my problems would be solved I guess.

bye juergen