Desktop Help library

[agraham]

This library provides access to three Help facilities on the desktop. These are F1 control help, control popup ToolTips and the "What's This?" button for dialogues.

The zip includes library, help, demo and source code for merging.

[francisco cobos]

Thanks Agrahan for your library, now, I can organise better my Hardware application: It's a sort of map with more than 1000 small control button linked to a data base, and I like this new feature to pass the mouse tip over the controls to know its name or other information.

[francisco cobos]

Just a question: is there any possibility to pass the text of the tooltip to a string? I want to do this without click in the control where I am passing the tip of the mouse.
Thanks in advance

[agraham]

Originally Posted by francisco cobos

is there any possibility to pass the text of the tooltip to a string?

Do you mean like this

String  = GetToolTip(control) ' Returns the tool tip text for control name.

I don't understand about the click, the tool tip pops up without clicking

[francisco cobos]

I'm trying to obtain the text inside the tooltip at the run time, so I don't know the name of the control: Something like that:


For ind=0 To table1.RowCount-1
one_function(x,y)
AddButton ("Form1", "But"&ind,x,y, 8,8,nombre_boton)
AddEvent ("But"&ind, Click, "MySub")
ToolTip.SetToolTip("But"&ind,table1.Cell("cod",ind ))
Next ind


Sub ToolTip_Popup
stringX=tooltip.GetToolTip ( control??????)
End Sub

[agraham]

You need to set a HelpID for each control using the control name and retrieve it in the event.

  For ind=0 To table1.RowCount-1
  one_function(x,y)
  AddButton ("Form1", "But"&ind,x,y, 8,8,nombre_boton)
  AddEvent ("But"&ind, Click, "MySub")
  ToolTip.SetToolTip("But"&ind,table1.Cell("cod",ind))
  Tooltip.SetID("But"&ind,"But"&ind) ' use the control name as an ID
Next ind


Sub ToolTip_Popup
  stringX=toolTtip.GetToolTip (ToolTip.HelpID)) ' retrieve the control then its tool tip
End Sub

[francisco cobos]

Thank you, now it works perfectly, I have just changed this:

stringX=toolTtip.GetToolTip (ToolTip.HelpID))

whith:

stringX=ToolTip.HelpID

[klaus]

Hi Andrew,

I have begun 'playing' with the HelpDesktop and The ControlExDesktop libraries.
I am writing a desktop version of my DynSim program and have at the moment TollbarButtons and Imagebuttons. I would like to get TooltipTexts on these buttons and use only one type of buttons, either TollbarButtons or TollStripButtons.

How can I get TooltipTexts on these objects ?

I tried it with the Door library, but am I missing something.

Thank's in advance.

[agraham]

Do you have to pay to use these?

Originally Posted by klaus

TollbarButtons

I would expect this to work but haven't actually tried it.

ToolTip.SetToolTip(ToolStripButton.ControlRef, "tip")
ToolTip.SetToolTip(ToolBarButton.Value, "tip")

Note the difference in property names used to return the control reference. This varies between implementors

[klaus]

Hi Andrew,

TollbarButtons 
Do you have to pay to use these?

Perhaps I should, or at least pay you for your help.

I had alraedy tried your suggestion, but I get the error below.

I have attached my small test program, without the libraies.

Best regards.