Re: Long text as hint in ComboBox?

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From: Majo Petrik
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:03

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Why don't you just set hint property in ComboBox ?
You have to have showhint set to true.
Hint will show automatically

M. Petrik



"KaKe" <kai.kamarainen@NOSPAM.ouman.fi> nap�sal v spr�ve
news:3f548fdb@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a combo box which contains long texts that does not fit to the drop
> down window. So I want to show long texts as a wide hint window if mouse
is
> over the text or the text is selected by arrow keys. I have been used
> OwnerDrawFixed as combobox style and so I am able to detect which item is
> just "active".
>
> Now I need help how to create this hint window? You can also suggest
> alternative way to solve the problem.
>
> - KaKe -
>
>

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