Controltip Text Help

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I have a subform that is a continuous form of partnumbers and the status of
the part. I was asked If I could make so if a person hovers over a
partnumber, the name of the part would be displayed like I do for the
Controltip on buttons and fields. Any ideas?
 
DDBeards said:
I have a subform that is a continuous form of partnumbers and the status of
the part. I was asked If I could make so if a person hovers over a
partnumber, the name of the part would be displayed like I do for the
Controltip on buttons and fields. Any ideas?
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This would be extremely non-trivial. It's very hard to figure out which
record on a continuous form the mouse is over, and you'd need to do that in
order to determine the correct value to show in the controltip.

I usually use a DblClick event or the Click event of a little "Details"
button to open a popup form to show the extra information, or else have a
text box in the footer that shows that information for the current record.
All those approaches involve actually making the record current, though.

It's just possible Stephen Lebans (www.lebans.com) has figured out how to do
this, but I haven't seen it.
 
Stephen Lebans said:
You would have to combine the Tooltips class on my site with the
ConFormsCurrentRow solution. Or give up on a Tooltip and just use the
ConFormsCurrentRow solution.
ContinuousFormsCurrentRow.zip is a class that allows you to
programmatically access the contents of a bound control, as the user moves
their Mouse, but the control does not have the focus. For Forms in
Continuous View.
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Thanks for coming into this thread, Stephen. I'd seen your Tooltips class,
but I hadn't looked at conFormsCurrentRow.
 
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