Tooltip Problems

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(reposted hopefully with proper MSDN info so I get support on this)

I'm using VS 2005.

I'm trying to use ToolTip's for some mandatory field validation. If a user
presses "OK" in my application, it will highlight any mandatory fields with a
nice baloon saying that field is mandatory.

I've got this working nicely with, say,

toolTip.Show("This field is mandatory.", tx_InputDate, 3000);


However, sometimes the tool tip appears in the wrong location. The times it
works properly, it looks great!

Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?
 
Hi,
However, sometimes the tool tip appears in the wrong location.
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Do you mean that the balloon ToolTip doesn't point to the target contol for
the first time it pops up?

This is a known issue of ToolTip in VS2005. In fact, this problem doesn't
exist when the balloon ToolTip pops up for the second time. If we set the
ToolTipText property for the target control on the tooltip, this problem
doesn't exist either.

The workaround is to call the Show method of the ToolTip twice. The
following is a sample.

private void SetToolTip(ToolTipIcon icon, string title, string message)
{
_toolTip.IsBalloon = true;
_toolTip.ToolTipIcon = icon;
_toolTip.ToolTipTitle = title;
_toolTip.Show("", this.textBox1);
_toolTip.Show(message, this.textBox1);
}

Hope this helps.
If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Thanks, this workaround worked perfectly!

Linda Liu said:
Hi,


Do you mean that the balloon ToolTip doesn't point to the target contol for
the first time it pops up?

This is a known issue of ToolTip in VS2005. In fact, this problem doesn't
exist when the balloon ToolTip pops up for the second time. If we set the
ToolTipText property for the target control on the tooltip, this problem
doesn't exist either.

The workaround is to call the Show method of the ToolTip twice. The
following is a sample.

private void SetToolTip(ToolTipIcon icon, string title, string message)
{
_toolTip.IsBalloon = true;
_toolTip.ToolTipIcon = icon;
_toolTip.ToolTipTitle = title;
_toolTip.Show("", this.textBox1);
_toolTip.Show(message, this.textBox1);
}

Hope this helps.
If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
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Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
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Hi Greg,

You may want to consider using an ErrorProvider component instead.

Hope this helps,

/ravi
 
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