ControlTipText Questions

[Guest]

Is it possible to change the format of the text displayed for a Control Tip?
Basically, I would like to control the font, font color, background color,
how wide the ControlTipText window is (maybe with a wordwrap-like method).
Also, I want to change the delay for how long it takes for the text to show
up. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Rich

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

Assume you mean tooltips on menus:

Not if you use built in capabilities I wouldn't think. The text is a
property - there is no object. The format of a control tip is a windows
setting (it also affects the formatting of comments).

 

[Guest]

Think this answered my question. I have some labels & buttons that I wanted
to have ToolTips appear for but wanted to be able to change the delay for
these ToolTips to appear, as well as how these ToolTips looked.

Thanks,

Rich

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

It now sounds like you are talking about control tips on MSForms 2.0
controls, but I don't think the answer is significantly different.

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

.. . . significantly different except that you could use the mouseover event
to put up your own control that looks like and behaves like a control tip.

The challenge would be detecting movement off the control, so I believe the
common approach is to put one control on top if a slightly larger control
and use the mouseover with a boolean flag variable to drop the simulated
control tip.

 

[Guest]

This idea sounds promising, I will look into this more.

Thanks, Tom.


Rich