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cheers damon - and happy new year :-)

Yeh, seen that link but actually READING if properly now - will knock up a 
quick article on it when i know what i'm doing :o)

"Damon Chandler (TeamB)" <editor@_REMOVE_THIS_SPAM_GUARD_bcbjournal.com> 
wrote in message news:45a36182$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi Mike,
>
> You might have already looked here, but this page...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4q27u
>
> describes some techniques of positioning tooltips.  In particular, have a 
> look at the section "Tracking Tooltips," and the description of the 
> TTF_CENTERTIP flag.  Never tried any of this myself, but it sounds 
> promising.
>
> This topic would also make for a good article :)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Damon (TeamB)
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>
> Mike Collins wrote:
>> Hi guys, just q quicky about tooltips - seems this topic has been 
>> discussed quite a bit previous but i can't seem to find the answers to my 
>> problems.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> However, I now have two seperate requirements and problems.  The first is 
>> that i need to position the tooltip below the control that it is being 
>> displayed for.  Currently it is displayed above the control.  I have 
>> tried using the SetWindowsPos but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
>>
>> The second (and unrelated) problem that i have is that i want to display 
>> the tooltip in responce to a users data entry.  [snip]
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Mike C