Something like tooltip

[juergen]

Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen

[cp]

You can get a tooltip to appear any time you like, including after a
click.
Plus, you can always create your won tooltip control which encapsulates
the .NET tooltip control.
There are also lots of 3rd party tooltip-like controls available if you
need something fancy!

cp

juergen wrote:

Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen

[juergen]

Thanks for the quick answer.

How can I get a tooltip to appear any time I like?
If I knew that my problems would be solved I guess.

bye juergen

"cp" <cp*****@yahoo.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
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You can get a tooltip to appear any time you like, including after a
click.
Plus, you can always create your won tooltip control which encapsulates
the .NET tooltip control.
There are also lots of 3rd party tooltip-like controls available if you
need something fancy!

cp

juergen wrote:

>Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't
work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

juergen,

You can call the Show method on the Tooltip class to show it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"juergen" <bb*******@lycos.dewrote in message
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Thanks for the quick answer.

How can I get a tooltip to appear any time I like?
If I knew that my problems would be solved I guess.

bye juergen

"cp" <cp*****@yahoo.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11*********************@m79g2000cwm.googlegro ups.com...

>You can get a tooltip to appear any time you like, including after a
click.
Plus, you can always create your won tooltip control which encapsulates
the .NET tooltip control.
There are also lots of 3rd party tooltip-like controls available if you
need something fancy!

cp

juergen wrote:

>>Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and
so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't
work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen

[juergen]

Hello again,

now I see the problem. I didn't mention that I use Visual Studio 2003 and
..Net 1.1 not .Net 2.0.
There is no Show() method in .Net 1.1.

Bye juergen

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.comschrieb
im Newsbeitrag news:eB**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

juergen,

You can call the Show method on the Tooltip class to show it.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"juergen" <bb*******@lycos.dewrote in message
news:OM****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>Thanks for the quick answer.

How can I get a tooltip to appear any time I like?
If I knew that my problems would be solved I guess.

bye juergen

"cp" <cp*****@yahoo.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11*********************@m79g2000cwm.googlegr oups.com...

>>You can get a tooltip to appear any time you like, including after a
click.
Plus, you can always create your won tooltip control which encapsulates
the .NET tooltip control.
There are also lots of 3rd party tooltip-like controls available if you
need something fancy!

cp

juergen wrote:
Hello everyone,

I want to display a help text when in help mode in my application.
Something like a tooltip. Now my application is a taskbar deskband and
so
not everything works what normally does.
Second the WinXP machine is a PC with touchscreen so a tooltip doesn't
work
because it only appears on hover and not on click. And when pointing
the
mouse by touching the screen it's a click.

The tooltip class is sealed so I can't even inherit from that.
what could I use?

Thanks in advance.

bye juergen