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Simon HB9DRV 
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 Topic: HTML TooltipsPosted: 22 September 2007 at 3:52am |
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Many, many thanks - a stonking implementation
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Question: can I find out the correct background colour for tooltips for the current skin / theme? What would be the correct way to do this?
I can always use the standard Windows GetSystemMetric (or whatever) and there's a similar call in Codejock, but I am wondering what the recommended way to do this is? Similarly the tooltip fonts?
I ask becuase I will try to obey colouring and font style for the current skin and theme but this is not essential.
Whatever - take it easy - keep up the very good work, my users love the results I acheive with your libraries.
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Posted: 22 September 2007 at 12:43pm |
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Also I see that style sheets can't be used - shame!
It would be nice but isn't essential.
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Posted: 22 September 2007 at 1:00pm |
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And it would be very nice to be able to specify where the tooltip is displayed (absolute position) - also I don't see any offset options.
Offset would be good - I am sure it must be possible somehow..
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Posted: 23 September 2007 at 8:04pm |
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Are these HTML tooltips anygood, have any screenshots of how cool they look ;)
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 12:56am |
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It's HTML - so anything you can do in HTML is supported.
So far my only problem is that I can't use css, otheriwise it's spot on.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 4:40am |
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Cool, anychance you can attach a few screenshots to show how cool they can be ???
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:04am |
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The tips are as cool as the programmer
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All I have done so far is replace RTF with HTML, HTML being much easier to write.
Other advantages will be adding icons - for example animated GIF's.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:07am |
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Ok looks very cool, but can the background of the tooltip use the theme'd background ???
I assume transparent HTML is possible lol, and does this work
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:10am |
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do you know which sample also shows how to do this, so we can start to add ;) as would be cool for our app
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:51am |
With HTML it is 100% up to you - you can get all colours from various Codejock calls, at the moment I'm using the Windows colours, not current theme / skin, will try this later today.
Also I will display emoticons which are resources in my executable.
As for transparent - I doubt this but Oleg will know. The IE engine is used to render a bitmap, I don't think I would want transparent tooltips myself.
What I do want is the ability to specify the tooltip co-ordinates, haven't figures this out yet.
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Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:52am |
ToolTipContext - Samples\CommandBars\ToolTipContext
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