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I would like to change size and time tooltip appears. How would I do this?

Harvey,

1. You can change the size of the tooltip specifying a larger text or a multiline text, i.e.: "This is a" + CRLF + "multiline tooltip" + CRLF + "test"

Also, FWH now supports an array instead of a text for a tooltip, using this format:

oControl:cToolTip := { cToolTipText, [cHeader, [nIcon]], [nForeColor], [nBackColor] }

Thanks for the quick resoponse.

I use "This is a" + CRLF + "multiline tooltip" + CRLF + "test" but there seems to be a limit on the amount of text. In 16bit never had a problem. Now the larger tooltips flash off and on until I make them smaller. I put one of my larger tips in tooltip.prg sample and same thing flashing.

Any Idea whats going on?

Besides the previous msg info, in order to change the default tooltip width, this change is required in source\classes\window.prg:

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#define TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH   (WM_USER + 24)

...
hWnd = CreateToolTip( ... )

SendMessage( hWnd, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, <nNewLength> )
...


default nLength is 120

Harvey,

Do you mean the tooltip width or the amount of text that it shows ?

Whats the Len() of your used tooltip text ?

Harvey,

2. In order to change the time that the tooltip is shows, similar changes in source\classes\window.prg are required:

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#define TTM_SETDELAYTIME        (WM_USER + 3)
#define TTDT_AUTOPOP  2
...
hWnd = CreateToolTip( ... )

SendMessageDelay( hWnd, TTM_SETDELAYTIME, TTDT_AUTOPOP, 32767 )
...


You can try values between 1 and 32767