How To Make Review / Comment Balloons in C#

[mortovski]

Hi there,

In later versions of Microsoft Word, you can make 'comments' on what someone has written... and a line comes out to a neat little bubble which you can write some text in. I'd like to incorporate this kind of feature into an app I'm writing.

Does anyone know how you'd go about this? I looked at the ToolTip class, but it seems limited - and the 'bubble' needs to be:

-multiline
-able to grow/shrink with the text in it
-colourful :)
-put a line back to a specified point on another form

Any thoughts or potential directions I could explore would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Peter

[tlhintoq]

In most areas those are referred to as "Call outs" and you won't find it as a stock component already in Visual Studio. You will have to make it yourself.

You are right regarding the best way to do it as a series of points. Generally that is referred to as 'vector' graphics. You want a 'drawing' versus a 'painting'. Think of it as an Adobe Illustrator document versus Adobe Photoshop.

You will see several good styles of callouts in SnagIt screen capture utility. You can download a trial version just to see some in action.

[mortovski]

Thanks for the quick reply! I suspected it might be a case of having to build it from the ground up.

Thanks,
Peter