HTML Tooltips
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Topic: HTML Tooltips
Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Subject: HTML Tooltips
Date Posted: 22 September 2007 at 3:52am
Many, many thanks - a stonking implementation  !
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. ------------- Simon HB9DRV |
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Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date 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. ------------- Simon HB9DRV |
Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date 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.. ------------- Simon HB9DRV |
Posted By: terrym
Date Posted: 23 September 2007 at 8:04pm
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Are these HTML tooltips anygood, have any screenshots of how cool they look ;) ------------- Thank you, Terry Mancey email terry@tmancey.ltd.uk | linkedin www.tmancey.ltd.uk | twitter @tmancey |
Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date 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. ------------- Simon HB9DRV |
Posted By: terrym
Date 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 ??? ------------- Thank you, Terry Mancey email terry@tmancey.ltd.uk | linkedin www.tmancey.ltd.uk | twitter @tmancey |
Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:04am
The tips are as cool as the programmer  .
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 By: terrym
Date 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 ------------- Thank you, Terry Mancey email terry@tmancey.ltd.uk | linkedin www.tmancey.ltd.uk | twitter @tmancey |
Posted By: terrym
Date 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 ------------- Thank you, Terry Mancey email terry@tmancey.ltd.uk | linkedin www.tmancey.ltd.uk | twitter @tmancey |
Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date 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. ------------- Simon HB9DRV |
terrym wrote:Posted By: Simon HB9DRV
Date Posted: 24 September 2007 at 5:52am
ToolTipContext - Samples\CommandBars\ToolTipContext ------------- Simon HB9DRV |