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From: Matt Houser on 3 Nov 2009 12:36
I am attempting to show a balloon tooltip on a property page (in a wizard)
in response to an event. For example, if the user clicks "Next", but some
input is invalid, I want to show a balloon tooltip showing the error.

Windows 7 does this in the new network connection wizard (see attached
image).

I can make the tooltip appear on hovering (in non-aero wizard mode), but I
cannot seem to trigger the tooltip to appear when I want it.

Thanks,
....Matt

From: AliR on 3 Nov 2009 12:58
The only way I can think of at the moment is to send TTM_TRACKACTIVATE
message to the CToolTipCtrl with the control that you want to display the
tooltip for.

AliR.


"Matt Houser" <matt(a)houser.ca> wrote in message
news:B562D750-37A9-40BC-AD67-CE5BC62BFABC(a)microsoft.com...
>I am attempting to show a balloon tooltip on a property page (in a wizard)
> in response to an event. For example, if the user clicks "Next", but some
> input is invalid, I want to show a balloon tooltip showing the error.
>
> Windows 7 does this in the new network connection wizard (see attached
> image).
>
> I can make the tooltip appear on hovering (in non-aero wizard mode), but I
> cannot seem to trigger the tooltip to appear when I want it.
>
> Thanks,
> ...Matt
>
>


From: Matt Houser on 3 Nov 2009 13:52
I found out how to do it and it does not involve CToolTipCtrl, but it only
works for CEdit (which suits my needs).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163588.aspx

You can either use CEdit::ShowBalloonTip(), or send the EM_SHOWBALLOONTIP
message passing a EDITBALLOONTIP structure.

And it works under PSH_AEROWIZARD so I am happy.

....Matt

"Matt Houser" <matt(a)houser.ca> wrote in message
news:B562D750-37A9-40BC-AD67-CE5BC62BFABC(a)microsoft.com...
> I am attempting to show a balloon tooltip on a property page (in a wizard)
> in response to an event. For example, if the user clicks "Next", but some
> input is invalid, I want to show a balloon tooltip showing the error.
>
> Windows 7 does this in the new network connection wizard (see attached
> image).
>
> I can make the tooltip appear on hovering (in non-aero wizard mode), but I
> cannot seem to trigger the tooltip to appear when I want it.
>
> Thanks,
> ...Matt
>
>
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