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Topic: Tooltip problem in floating pane

Posted By: yoavo
Subject: Tooltip problem in floating pane
Date Posted: 24 December 2006 at 4:53am

Hi,

I have a dockable pane which a dialog box attach to it. The dialog contains a button which has a tooltip. The problem is that when the pane is floating, the tooltip appears behind the pane.

I attached a small sample to demonstrate the problem (Float the left pane and see the behaviour of the tooltips).

Yoav. http://forum.codejock.com/uploads/20061224_045258_ThemeTest.zip - uploads/20061224_045258_ThemeTest.zip

Replies:

Posted By: mgampi
Date Posted: 24 December 2006 at 8:07am

Hi,

If you haven't set the WS_EX_TOPMOST style of the tooltip this could occure.
Another solution - in the TTN_SHOW handler (OnNotify) bring the tooltip to from by calling

// make sure the tooltip is at the top of the "Z" order, otherwise

// it will appear behind any popup windows....

::SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE);

I hope this helps

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Martin

Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0
Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit)
Language: VC++ 2022

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 December 2006 at 9:23am

Common solution for this tooltip problem is:

BOOL CMasterDialog::OnNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, LRESULT* pResult)

{

NMHDR* pNMHDR = (NMHDR*)lParam;

switch (pNMHDR->code)

{

case TTN_SHOW:

{

if (m_TT.GetSafeHwnd())

{

// make sure the tooltip is at the top of the "Z" order, otherwise

// it will appear behind popup windows....

::SetWindowPos(m_TT, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0,

SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE);

}

break;

}

return CDialog::OnNotify(wParam, lParam, pResult);

}

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS