Re: tooltip for controls on a dialog application

From:
kathy <yqin_99@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:44:23 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<8d5d760e-1a89-4d9d-953a-8128d8826a34@b10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 21, 9:27 am, kathy <yqin...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I try to add tooltips for my controls on a dialog application.

in OnInitDialog(), I add :

EnableToolTips(TRUE);

Then I add ON_NOTIFY_EX(TTN_NEEDTEXT, 0, OnToolTipNotify) in message
map:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMFC_ZoomDlg, CDialog)
...
ON_NOTIFY_EX(TTN_NEEDTEXT, 0, OnToolTipNotify)
...
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

and:

BOOL CMFC_TestDlg::OnToolTipNotify( UINT unId, NMHDR *pstNMHDR,
LRESULT *pstResult )
{
        UNUSED_ALWAYS (pstResult);
        UNUSED_ALWAYS (unId);
        TOOLTIPTEXT* pstTTT = (TOOLTIPTEXT * )pstNMHDR;
        UINT nID = pstNMHDR->idFrom;
        if ((pstTTT->uFlags & TTF_IDISHWND))
        {
                // idFrom is actually the HWND of the too=

l

                nID = ::GetDlgCtrlID((HWND)nID);

                pstTTT->lpszText = _T("Hello");
                pstTTT->hinst = AfxGetResourceHandle();
                return(TRUE);
        }
        return (FALSE);

}

On my dialog, I have some EditBox, RadioButton, Button ComboBox. But
some control show tooltips and others not. Could someone tell me why?


I find the controls with no tooltips are controls with tab order
bigger than the Group control tab order. How to set tooltips with any
tab order.

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