Tooltip for Bound ListBox and Combobox

[SenileOwl]

I'm working with Visual Basic .Net 2005

I'm trying to create a tooltip for a bound listbox and a combobox. I want the tooltip to be of the item the mouse is hovering over. Is there an easy way to do this? I stumbled across some code that required identifying the position of the mouse in X, Y and then finding the height of each item, etc, etc. Is that going to be my best option?

[maheshmrk22]

Hi,

Can you please tell that are you working on Web project or windows project. If that is web base then their is simply property for controls that is tooltip in protperty window.

Thanks
Mahesh

I'm working with Visual Basic .Net 2005

I'm trying to create a tooltip for a bound listbox and a combobox. I want the tooltip to be of the item the mouse is hovering over. Is there an easy way to do this? I stumbled across some code that required identifying the position of the mouse in X, Y and then finding the height of each item, etc, etc. Is that going to be my best option?

[SenileOwl]

My Application is for Windows. Is there a way to do it in Windows?

[maheshmrk22]

Hi,

Try this one

Assembly System.Winforms.dll.
Namespace System.Winforms.

In .NET, the ToolTip class provides tooltip functionality for Windows Controls. Creating a ToolTip object is similar to any other .NET class object. You call Constructor to create a tooltip object.

There are two steps to add a tooltip to a control. First you create an instance of ToolTip control using ToolTip class. And second you attach tooltip to a control by using ToolTip class's SetToolTip member and call set Active property true.

Active = true.

Say you want to add a tooltip to a button, button1.

1. Create a Tooltip Object

Private toolTip1 As ToolTip = New System.WinForms.ToolTip (Me.components)

2. Attach tooltip to the control.

Private toolTip1 As ToolTip = New System.WinForms.ToolTip (Me.components)
toolTip1.SetToolTip (button1, "This is tooltip test")
toolTip1.Active = True



Thanks
Mahesh

My Application is for Windows. Is there a way to do it in Windows?

[SenileOwl]

I can create a tooltip for the bound listbox and the combobox. Unfortunately, what I cannot do, is make the tooltip say what I want it to say. I want the tooltip to read the text of an item that the mouse is hovering over in both the combobox and the listbox.

Thanks for your last response though, if I had not been able to get my tooltip started, that would have helped.