Re: ToolTip problem in a child dialog box

From:
Phil <pbruyant@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:10:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<50aa9970-d7d5-4b7a-b8c9-8749cbc484be@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On 10 avr, 19:00, Dan Bloomquist <publi...@lakeweb.com> wrote:

Phil wrote:

Hi
I am using MS VC 6.0 and Vista.
I have a dialog box containing a CTabCtrl control.
I put a child dialog box for each tab.
In each child dialog box, I put a number of controls (CEdit...).
For each control, I specify a tooltip.
So far, so good.
Here is my problem:
In Debug mode (not in Release mode), after the tooltip appears, if I
move the mouse so that the cursor enters the tooltip area (before the
tooltip disappears), I get
           ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd));
in wincore.cpp.
It is my understanding that the program is looking for a tooltip for
the tooltip, and that the tooltip is not recognized has a valid
window !
Can someone tell me what I did wrong and how to solve this problem?
Thanks!
Phil
////////////////////////////////////
BOOL CTab::OnToolTipNotify(UINT id, NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult)
{
  TOOLTIPTEXT *pTTT = (TOOLTIPTEXT *)pNMHDR;
  UINT nID =pNMHDR->idFrom;

  if (pTTT->uFlags & TTF_IDISHWND)
    {
    // idFrom is actually the HWND of the tool
    nID = ::GetDlgCtrlID((HWND)nID);


//Here, make sure you have a tip window
     // pNMHDR->idFrom is actually the HWND of the control
     nID= ::GetDlgCtrlID( reinterpret_cast<HWND>( (DWORD_PTR)nID ) );
     CToolTipCtrl* pToolTip= AfxGetModuleThreadState( )->m_pToolTip;
     if( nID && pToolTip && pToolTip->GetSafeHwnd( ) )

      {
      pTTT->lpszText = MAKEINTRESOURCE(nID);
      pTTT->hinst = AfxGetInstanceHandle();
      return(TRUE);
      }
    }

  return(FALSE);
}
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////


Best, Dan.


Thanks Dan!

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