Task Panel Tooltips in ActiveX control

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   I'm writing an MFC ActiveX control in VC++ 6.0 which has a child task panel control. Tooltips do not appear for this control, and I was able to trace it down to the fact that (1) PreTranslateMessage doesn't fire for MFC ActiveX controls (at least is the application in which my controls are embedded) and (2) even if I get it to fire, AFX_MODULE_STATE's m_pfnFilterToolTipMessage is NULL.
I also noticed the _XTP_ACTIVEX section of the CXTPTaskPanel::Create method for setting the AFX_MODULE_STATE's pfnFilterToolTipMessage to AxFilterToolTipMessage. Now, as far as I can tell, AxFilterToolTipMessage is not MFC.
So, the question is: what's the best way to get this control's tooltips to appear? Should I try to force PreTranslateMessage to fire, or just call CWnd::FilterToolTipMessage directly somewhere?

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KFournier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 17 August 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote KFournier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Task Panel Tooltips in ActiveX control Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:46pm
	I'm writing an MFC ActiveX control in VC++ 6.0 which has a child task panel control. Tooltips do not appear for this control, and I was able to trace it down to the fact that (1) PreTranslateMessage doesn't fire for MFC ActiveX controls (at least is the application in which my controls are embedded) and (2) even if I get it to fire, AFX_MODULE_STATE's m_pfnFilterToolTipMessage is NULL. I also noticed the _XTP_ACTIVEX section of the CXTPTaskPanel::Create method for setting the AFX_MODULE_STATE's pfnFilterToolTipMessage to AxFilterToolTipMessage. Now, as far as I can tell, AxFilterToolTipMessage is not MFC. So, the question is: what's the best way to get this control's tooltips to appear? Should I try to force PreTranslateMessage to fire, or just call CWnd::FilterToolTipMessage directly somewhere?
	Kevin R. Fournier SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 November 2004 at 3:41am
	All right. PreTranslateMessage doesn't work with ActiveX. (MFC feature) you need: Override CXTPTaskPanel and add BOOL OnWndMsg(UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, LRESULT* pResult) { MSG msg; msg.wParam = wParam; msg.lParam = lParam; msg.message = message; msg.hwnd = m_hWnd; GetCursorPos(&msg.pt); // Tooltips notification. FilterToolTipMessage(&msg); return CWnd::OnWndMsg(message, wParam, lParam, pResult); }
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

KFournier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 17 August 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote KFournier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 November 2004 at 10:51am
	Worked like a charm. Thank you.
	Kevin R. Fournier SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.