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You could try to use a method that I developed called The Component Method
You'll find an example here
http://www.geocities.com/rodolfofrino/HintsTheComponentMethod.html

You can specify the parent of the Hint, so that the hint will appear exactly
where you want

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"Rusty" <rustyr@redstorm.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings:
>
> I have a form that contains child forms (not MDI) that have the FormStyle,
> fsStayOnTop.  In one of those child forms,  I have a TPageControl object.
> At runtime, I add TTabSheet objects as needed, and, in each TTabSheet
> object, I add a TListView object.  The problem that I'm having is that
> whenever the TApplication's OnHint event fires that is triggered for one
of
> the TListView objects, the hint appears on the MainForm, not over the
> TListView object (or even over the window that contains the PageControl).
> Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Here is the code I am using to add TTabSheet and TListView objects:
>
> sheet = new TTabSheet( this );
> sheet->Name = "TabSheet" + IntToStr( i );
> sheet->PageControl = PageControl;
> sheet->Caption = curTable->Name;
> view = new TListView( this );
> view->Name = "ListView" + IntToStr( i );
> view->ShowHint = true;
> view->DoubleBuffered = true;
> view->Parent = sheet;
> view->ViewStyle = vsReport;
> view->Align = alClient;
> view->GridLines = true;
> view->Columns->Add( );
> view->Column[ 0 ]->Caption = "String ID";
> view->Column[ 0 ]->Width = view->Canvas->TextWidth( "String ID" ) + 8;
> view->Columns->Add( );
> view->Column[ 1 ]->Caption = "Value";
> view->Column[ 1 ]->Width = view->Canvas->TextWidth( "Value" ) + 8;
>
> All the Best,
> Rusty
>
>