🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi remy, i keep ranting on about these Balloon Tips but i'm struggling to 
get an consistancy in my depolyments.

In test / demo applications this code wrapper works fine but when i 
incorperate it into my GINA based help dialog (TForm based) the balloon tips 
display and then once they timeout, they won't display again.  The wrapper 
looks like this:


void AssignBalloonTip(HWND &p_hTTips, TOOLINFO &p_ti, TWinControl 
*p_WinControl,
                                 const AnsiString &p_szTitle, const 
AnsiString &p_szBody,
                                 UINT p_uIcon, UINT p_uFlags, TColor 
clBackCL, TColor clTextCL,
                                 UINT p_uShowDelay)
{
   p_hTTips = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_TOPMOST, "tooltips_class32", NULL,
                             WS_POPUP | TTS_NOPREFIX | TTS_BALLOON | 
TTS_ALWAYSTIP,
                             0, 0, 0, 0, p_WinControl->Handle, NULL, 
HInstance, NULL);
   if (p_hTTips)
   {
      ZeroMemory(&p_ti, sizeof(TOOLINFO));
      p_ti.cbSize   = sizeof(TOOLINFO);
      p_ti.uFlags   = p_uFlags;
      p_ti.hwnd     = p_WinControl->Handle;
      p_ti.uId      = 0;
      p_ti.hinst    = NULL;
      p_ti.lpszText = p_szBody.c_str();

      SetWindowPos(p_hTTips, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOACTIVATE | 
SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);
      ::GetClientRect(p_WinControl->Handle, &p_ti.rect);
      SendMessage(p_hTTips, TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR, clBackCL, 0);
      SendMessage(p_hTTips, TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR, clTextCL, 0);
      SendMessage(p_hTTips, TTM_SETTITLE, p_uIcon, (int)p_szTitle.c_str());
      SendMessage(p_hTTips, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, (LPARAM)&p_ti);
      SendMessage(p_hTTips, TTM_SETDELAYTIME, TTDT_AUTOPOP, p_uShowDelay);
   }
}

and i assign it like this:

      AssignBalloonTip(hProxWnd, tiProxTip, Edit1,
                                 "Balloon Tip Title",
                                 "Balloon Tip body if information"
                                 TTI_INFO, TTF_SUBCLASS | TTF_TRANSPARENT, 
(TColor)clCream,
                                 (TColor)clBlack, 10000);

where hProxWnd and tiProcTip are privately declared varaible...  Might just 
be an issue with using these systems within the context of the Winlogon 
desktop.  I also don't see my icons / glyphs painted in the listview on the 
same dialog.

Cheers


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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