Re: How to display own tooltip on taskbar group

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:50:08 GMT

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<aditya_min1978@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1158044527.415488.252270@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...

Hi,
i need a help on showing the Tool tip text on Taskbar.

I have a MFC application. The application is Multithreaded
Application. During startup the Main thread creates a Dummy Dialog and
hide the dialog.

When user single click on the Applicatioon Icon, a new UI thread gets
created with one Dialog. if user clicks 5 times on the Applicatioon
Icon then there are 5 dialogs and dialogs form a group on taskbar
(becuase Groups similar taskbar buttons property of TaskBar is true).
Now when i move the mouse on taskbar icon it shows the following
tooltip -
(5) TODO:<File description>

But i want to show the text whatever i set by SetWindowText() when
mouse over the group. its working fine until and unless no grouping on
taskbar.

Apparently when Grouping is enabled, the button text comes from the version
resource in your app. That's probably because that's the only thing in
common with all the windows is the app description. I doubt there is a way
your app could override it. You could inject into Explorer and set the
button text directly, but that is extremely low level and probably not worth
it.

-- David
http://www.dcsoft.com