henrik
Sat Sep 11 11:27:09 CDT 2004
After installaing the latest SP i cant get the tooltip to work either. We had
it running in several applications for years !! - I get an internal .NET JIT
error when tooltip funtionality is added on application startup...
/Henrik
"JB" wrote:
> Last follow-up: I found that rebooting my machine fixed this and
> other strange behavior I've been seeing. Don't know if others are
> running into this or not. My developement system is very weak (P-II
> 300 MHZ with about 512MB RAM)...but for now it is going to have to do.
>
> JB
>
> jbyy4u@yahoo.com (JB) wrote in message news:<aaed8e6c.0409030749.5bfafb0b@posting.google.com>...
> > Just a quick follow-up. What I described below where I had coded the
> > first conrol and the other tooltips then worked - it was pretty
> > flakey...sometimes it would work...most times it wouldn't so I had to
> > code all.
> >
> > I'm running 1.1 SP1 FW with VS.net 2003...I'm going to be
> > upgrading/re-installing soon so maybe it will start working as it
> > should.
> >
> > JB
> >
> > jbyy4u@yahoo.com (JB) wrote in message news:<aaed8e6c.0409021631.1693d5d9@posting.google.com>...
> > > OK, my understanding of the simple use of the tooltip is to do the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > Drag the ToolTip from the toolbox on to your form. Once this is done
> > > all the controls have a new property added to them called "ToolTip on
> > > ToolTip1" (default name).
> > >
> > > For each control you can go and enter the specific text for that
> > > particular control. Then when the mouse is hovered over your controls
> > > any ToolTips you've defined for the controls should be displayed.
> > >
> > > I COULD NOT GET THIS TO WORK until I did the additional step:
> > >
> > > On my first control I added an event handler for mouse over as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > Private Sub lblAddOne_MouseHover(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
> > > System.EventArgs) Handles lblAddOne.MouseHover
> > >
> > > ToolTip1.SetToolTip(sender, "Move Selected Items From List 1 to List
> > > 2")
> > >
> > > End Sub
> > >
> > > Once I added this code the ToolTip on the first control worked fine.
> > > I then just configured the properties of the second control's ToolTip
> > > and IT worked fine without any extra code!
> > >
> > > What am I missing here?
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > > JB
>