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"Mike Collins" <its@TheBottomOfThePost> wrote in message
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> Is it necessary to call InitCommonControlsEx() from BCB applications??

That depends on what you are trying to use.  It has to be called for each
control class that you want to use.  If you are using the standard
components in the ComCtrls unit, they call InitCommonControlsEx() for
themselves automatically.  If you are trying to use a particular Win32 API
control via the API directly, then you may have to call
InitCommonControlsEx() manually as well.

> My problems is that my Balloon Tooltips keep disappearing after
> they have auto popped-up.  Also having issues with glyphs not being
> painted in ListViews?

Please show your actual code.


Gambit

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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