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Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?

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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:44 PM
Pieter Linden
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In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
only get it to work by clicking the button...

Thanks,
Pieter
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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:44 PM
Allen Browne
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re: Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?


The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
overlapping your button.

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"Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color]


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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:45 PM
Pieter Linden
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re: Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?


"Allen Browne" <AllenBrowne@SeeSig.Invalid> wrote in message news:<3fbdbcaf$0$1742$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au>...[color=blue]
> The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
> overlapping your button.
>
> --
> Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
> Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
> Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
>
> "Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bf31e41b.0311202258.49b76c66@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> > button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> > If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> > only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color][/color]


Really weird. Tested it out on a new form, and it works fine.
Removed any code that would interfere with it from the form that
didn't work, and it still didn't work. Time to rebuild...

Thanks!
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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:45 PM
PC Datasheet
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re: Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?


Pieter,

Do you have the button in a box? If you do, selecet the button and then go to
Format - Move To Front.


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"Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Allen Browne" <AllenBrowne@SeeSig.Invalid> wrote in message[/color]
news:<3fbdbcaf$0$1742$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au>...[color=blue][color=green]
> > The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
> > overlapping your button.
> >
> > --
> > Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
> > Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
> > Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
> >
> > "Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:bf31e41b.0311202258.49b76c66@posting.google.c om...[color=darkred]
> > > In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> > > button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> > > If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> > > only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color][/color]
>
>
> Really weird. Tested it out on a new form, and it works fine.
> Removed any code that would interfere with it from the form that
> didn't work, and it still didn't work. Time to rebuild...
>
> Thanks![/color]


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Old November 12th, 2005, 04:46 PM
Pieter Linden
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re: Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?


Thanks, I got it sorted. I broke down and wrote code to assign the
ControlTipText by opening the form in design mode and interating
through the command buttons... works a champ.
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