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5 total messages Started by David Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:33

#2435

Author: David
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:33

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I have a CoolTrayIcon component which displays a balloon hint connected to 
the tray icon but I would like to beable to arbitrarily display a balloon 
hint anywhere on a window. How to do this ??

Thanks in advance
David

Re: Balloon Hint

#2436

Author: Bob Gonder
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:58

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David wrote:

>I have a CoolTrayIcon component which displays a balloon hint connected to 
>the tray icon but I would like to beable to arbitrarily display a balloon 
>hint anywhere on a window. How to do this ??

Is this what you want?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/tooltip/usingtooltips.asp

Also see your help for tooltip topics.

Re: Balloon Hint

#2343

Author: Bob Gonder
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:10

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David wrote:

>Hello Bob
>
>The Ballon Hint looks like this http://www.globalclipboard.com/hint.gif

Yes, so what's your point?
The link I gave tells you how to do those too.
Re-read the first paragraph of the Balloon ToolTips sublink.

>> Is this what you want?
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/tooltip/usingtooltips.asp

Re: Balloon Hint

#2344

Author: Mike Collins
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:26

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Please see my comment in the .vcl.components.using group.

Mike C
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Re: Balloon Hint

#2348

Author: Vladimir Stefanovic
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:54

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> [...] but I would like to beable to arbitrarily display a balloon
> hint anywhere on a window. How to do this ??


__fastcall TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner)
        : TForm(Owner)
{
   HWND const hToolTip =
      CreateWindow( TOOLTIPS_CLASS, NULL, TTS_BALLOON, 0, 0, 0, 0, Handle, 
NULL, HInstance, NULL );

   if ( hToolTip != NULL )
   {
      TOOLINFO tool_info = {0};
      tool_info.cbSize = sizeof(tool_info);
      tool_info.uFlags = TTF_SUBCLASS | TTF_TRANSPARENT;
      tool_info.hwnd = Edit1->Handle;
      tool_info.lpszText = Edit1->Text.c_str();
      CopyRect( &tool_info.rect, &(Edit1->ClientRect) );

      SNDMSG( hToolTip, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, 
reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(&tool_info) );
   }
}



-- 
Best Regards,
Vladimir Stefanovic

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