Tool Tips

[tpremore]

How can I add a tool tip to a button on a dialog box?
(you know, the little popup text when the mouse hovers over
the button) It seems like this should be pretty easy to do, but I'm at a loss.
Any help is appreciated

 

[KeithBrautigam]

The best discussion I have seen came from The MFC Answer Book by Eugene Kain. If you can find a copy of that book you'll probably have your problem solved in 20 minutes. I'd copy his answer here but I'd probably be breaking all sorts of copyright laws.

A pretty decent reference is:

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaul.../tooltip/tooltip.htm&nav=/msj/0497/newnav.htm

Beyond that, you could also try going to CodeGuru:

http://codeguru.earthweb.com/controls/index.shtml

And if you go to msdn.microsoft.com and search for CToolTipCtrl you'll probably find lots of info.

 

[IonelBurtan]

It is not quite easy to do. Actually I advise you to make a derived class for your buttons.

Principal steps:
1. call EnableTooltips(TRUE) on the CButton derived class member or in the InitDialog.
2. associate a string in the string table with the SAME Id like the id of your button
3. write (by hand) a notification for the TTN_NEEDTEXT message and in the function associated with the handle put the message in the NMHDR structure.

Read the MSDN article:
"DOC: How to Display Tool Tips After Calling EnableToolTips"

Hope this helps,
s-)

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