Tooltip following mouse cursor

Hi,

In MFC, it possible to create a CToolTipCtrl tooltip in a CView that follows the mouse cursor around. The tooltip is activated using Activate() and its text is updated using UpdateTipText.

For example, add the following changes to the Scribble sample:

static CToolTipCtrl * tooltip = 0;
void CScribbleView::OnLButtonUp(UINT, CPoint point)
{
     if (tooltip)
     {
          tooltip ->Activate (false);
          delete tooltip;
          tooltip = 0;
     }
     else
     {
          tooltip = new CToolTipCtrl ();
          tooltip -> Create (this);
          tooltip -> AddTool (this);
          tooltip -> Activate (true);
          tooltip -> UpdateTipText ("Tooltip", this);
     }

     // Mouse button up is interesting in the Scribble application
     ...

void CScribbleView::OnMouseMove(UINT, CPoint point)
{
     if (tooltip)
     {
          CString toolText;
          toolText .Format ("Mouse: (%d, %d)", point.x, point.y);
          tooltip -> UpdateTipText (toolText, this);
     }
     // Mouse movement is interesting in the Scribble application
     ...

BOOL CScribbleView::PreTranslateMessage (MSG * pMsg)
{
     if (tooltip)
          tooltip -> RelayEvent (pMsg);

     return __super :: PreTranslateMessage (pMsg);
}


Run the application. Click to turn the tooltip on or off, and move the mouse – it will show mouse coordinates just under the cursor, as it moves:
    

Is there a way to create a similar scenario in XTP, using other styles of tooltip (RTF, Office, etc)? All the existing examples of CXTPToolTipContext currently use OnToolHitTest, but not Activate+UpdateTipText.


Thanks,
Dmitry

Hi,

Are there plans to make this functionality available? And if so, when?

Regards,
Dmitry