Re: Tooltips not shown in dll's modeless dialog

From:

"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

11 Aug 2006 05:52:15 -0700

Message-ID:

<1155300735.831207.61950@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>

This is a known issue if the DLL is a Regular DLL. You have to do some
extra work. In addition to tooltips, tabbing in a modeless dialog will
not work either. Is it a Regular DLL for you? If it is, why do you have
a Regular DLL instead of a MFC Extension DLL?

---
Ajay

BlueOxygen wrote:

Environment: VC++ .NET 2005, Windows XP + SP2

I am developing an application that contains a modeless dialog.
I want to have tooltips at the buttons in the dialog.
The main code is as followings:
{
            m_oToolTipCtrl.Create(this, TTS_ALWAYSTIP);
            m_oToolTipCtrl.Activate(TRUE);
            m_oToolTipCtrl.AddTool(FromHandle(m_oMyBtn.GetSafeHwnd()),
_T("MyTooltips"));
}
and EnableToolTips in the OnInitDialog().

1, On usual way, I call m_oToolTipCtrl.RelayEvent(pMsg) in
PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg).
But PreTranslateMessage() in thedialog doesn't get called,

2, So in another way, I make a WM_MOUSEMOVE message to call
RelayEvent()
void CMyDialog::OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point)
{
    // TODO: Add your message handler code here and/or call default
    MSG msg;
    msg.hwnd = this->GetSafeHwnd();
    msg.message = WM_MOUSEMOVE;
    msg.wParam = WPARAM(nFlags);
    msg.time = 0;
    msg.pt.x = point.x;
    msg.pt.y = point.y;
    msg.lParam = MAKELPARAM(LOWORD(point.x), LOWORD(point.y));
    m_oToolTipCtrl.Activate(TRUE);
    m_oToolTipCtrl.RelayEvent(&msg);
}
Now I can call the RelayEvent, however, the result is that the
tooltips never shows.

I hope someone could give some clarity of the problem.
Regards, and thanks in advance,