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Put an invisible label on your form.<br />
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Then, in the MouseUp event you move your label to the X and Y coordinates the the event gives you and make your label visible. <br />

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Put an invisible label on your form.

Then, in the MouseUp event you move your label to the X and Y coordinates the the event gives you and make your label visible.


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How do I stop that label from being partially hidden by the form should it want to reach further to the right than the form is ?<br />

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How do I stop that label from being partially hidden by the form should it want to reach further to the right than the form is ?


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When you want to show the label, check that X + label.Width is less than form.scalewidth.<br />
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If not, you can move your label some twips to the left.<br />
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Maybe you can deal with autosize and wordwrap property of the label.<br />

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When you want to show the label, check that X + label.Width is less than form.scalewidth.

If not, you can move your label some twips to the left.

Maybe you can deal with autosize and wordwrap property of the label.


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Also you could use tooltips and change it's text<br />
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like this.........<br />
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Private Sub List1_MouseUp(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)<br />
Dim ypos<br />
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ypos = Int(Y / (List1.FontSize * 25))<br />
List1.ToolTipText = List1.List(ypos)<br />
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End Sub<br />

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Also you could use tooltips and change it's text

like this.........

Private Sub List1_MouseUp(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Dim ypos

ypos = Int(Y / (List1.FontSize * 25))
List1.ToolTipText = List1.List(ypos)

End Sub


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I want to be able to click on an item in a multi-column listbox and show the equivalent of a tooltip label if the text isn't fully displayed because the list box is not wide enough. How do you do this ? If you can't, please can you suggest an alternative.<br />
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Thanx.
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I want to be able to click on an item in a multi-column listbox and show the equivalent of a tooltip label if the text isn't fully displayed because the list box is not wide enough. How do you do this ? If you can't, please can you suggest an alternative.

Thanx.

Tool tips equivalent

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