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Customized tooltip description

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Topic: Customized tooltip description

Posted By: JamesP
Subject: Customized tooltip description
Date Posted: 07 January 2009 at 10:09am

Does anyone know if there is a way of customizing the title and description of a tooltip, beyond editing the resources.

We would lilke the tooltip description to have multiple lines and dffierent to that which appears in the Statusbar.

Thanks.

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 07 January 2009 at 2:44pm

Hi,

Why you can't edit resources ?

You can find control and call its pControl->SetDescription method

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: JamesP
Date Posted: 08 January 2009 at 6:40am

I can't edit the resources because I want the Statusbar to show a different description to that displayed in the tooltip.

Initially I tried:

pCommandBars->FindControl(xtpControlButton,ID_FILE_NEW,...)pControl->SetTooltip(...)

pControl->SetDescription(...)

This only changed the toolbar item and not the menu item.

I found that you can call a function:

pCommandBars->EnableActions()

and get the control with the call:

pCommandBars->GetActions()->FindAction(ID_FILE_NEW)

setting the Tooltip and description now effects both menu and toolbar items, but I still have the problem that the status bar reflects the change to the description, showing new line characters as squares (yuk!)