Tooltip on a Usercontrol shows up behind the form

[bajdev]

I have a custom usercontrol that holds several labels and buttons. My usercontrol also contains a tooltip control. If I can set tooltips for the buttons on my usercontrol without any trouble.

The problem occurs when I place my usercontrol on a form and mouse over a button. The tooltips show up behind the form my usercontrol is on. It took me a while to realize this was happening. I ended up placing a really long string in the tooltip and noticed the tip sticking out from behind the forum.

I tried placing a tooltip control on my main form and passing it to my usercontrols constructor when I create the control. While this wasn't pretty I figured I'd just try it. I still get the same behavior though. Even using the tooltip control from the main form the tooltips still show up behind my form.

I had the tooltips working fine when I just had the buttons and tooltip control on my forum. I'd really like to use a usercontrol though.

I thought maybe there was some kind of Z order property or something, but I couldn't find anything.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
bajdev

 

[JurkMonkey]

You might have to set the Parent property of the tooltip?

Set the parent to the usercontrol.parent

 

[bajdev]

Thanks for your response.

Glancing on MSDN it doesn't look like a tooltop object has a parent property.

I see where you are going with it though. You might have me on the right track. I hope so. I'll try anything at this point.

I'm stumped and this is driving me crazy.

I'll try this, this evening and let you know the results.

Thanks again.
bajdev