BALLOONTIP?

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BALLOONTIP?

#1 Post by skiman »

Hi Roger,

Any plans to implement the BALLOONTIP?
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I did the implementation for the DCSAY ... GET and it is working nice. If you are interested I can post my changes. Ideally the DCGET, DCSLE, DCMULTILINE and DCCOMBO should also be changed. Since I'm not using these very much, I won't add them to my changes.
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Re: BALLOONTIP?

#2 Post by rdonnay »

Chris -

I implemented balloon tips a long time ago, however it looks like I failed to document DC_ShowBalloonTip() in express.chm.

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dc_showballoontip(.t.)
c := 'testing'
@ 0,0 dcget c tooltip 'just testing'
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Re: BALLOONTIP?

#3 Post by skiman »

Hi Roger,

This is based on the TOOLTIP which doesn't work well. A lot of times it doesn't come up and there is a flickering problem when the balloontip is set.

Seems that was implemented in Build260.
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#4 Post by rdonnay »

You can try a manifest file.

See \exp20\samples\tooltip\balloon.prg.
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Re: BALLOONTIP?

#5 Post by skiman »

Hi,

Yes, I know you need to use a manifest file.

The problem with the replacement of the tooltip with the showballoontip is that it uses the same technique as the tooltip.
- It takes some time to show up.
- It is executed in another thread.
- Sometimes it isn't shown.

The advantage is that a tooltip can be shown on each element, which isn't the case for the showballoontip.
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