@hub, yes ive working tooltip's on textfield in winblitz3d. basicly it possable on most standard winapi gadgets, ive little time to code this up but i will help if anyone wants to do this. athough this would only work under win32, im have no idea under linux or macos.
some c code i use to enable tooltips on any passed gadget, NOTE this is takin from my winblitz3d's sourcecode. so some modifcation would be needed to port it into blitzmax.
DWORD dwStyle = WS_POPUP |
TTS_ALWAYSTIP | // appears when button active/inactive
TTS_NOPREFIX |TTF_IDISHWND; // don't strip ampersand (&) character
if(type==1){
dwStyle = dwStyle | TTS_BALLOON;
}
HWND hwndToolTip = CreateWindowEx( 0, "tooltips_class32", 0, dwStyle,
CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,
CW_USEDEFAULT, gadget, (HMENU)0,
GetModuleHandle(0),0 ) ;
//+----------------------------------------------------------+
//| You must explicitly define a ToolTip control as topmost. |
//| Otherwise, it might be covered by the parent window. |
//+----------------------------------------------------------+
SetWindowPos( hwndToolTip, HWND_TOPMOST,0, 0, 0, 0,
SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE );
//+------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Get the bounding rect of the buttons. We will need this to |
//| fill in the rect member of the TOOLINFO structures. |
//+------------------------------------------------------------+
RECT rc ;
GetClientRect( gadget, &rc ) ;
//+--------------------------------------------+
//| Fill in a TOOLINFO structure for Gadget. |
//+--------------------------------------------+
TOOLINFO ti ;
ti.cbSize = sizeof ( TOOLINFO ) ;
ti.hinst = GetModuleHandle(0) ;
ti.hwnd = hwndToolTip ; // tooltip hwnd
ti.lpszText = TEXT(tiptext) ; // tooltip for gadget
ti.rect = rc ;
ti.uFlags = TTF_SUBCLASS | TTF_IDISHWND ; // tool tip control handles own messages
ti.uId = (UINT)gadget; // gadget hwnd to add tooltip
//+---------------------------------------------------+
//| Add the tool for Gadget to the ToolTip control. |
//+---------------------------------------------------+
SendMessage( hwndToolTip,
TTM_ADDTOOL, // Registers a tool with a ToolTip control.
0,
(LPARAM)(LPTOOLINFO)(&ti) ) ; // address of TOOLINFO struct
kev
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