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Yellow help box

Hello, i want to know how to show a yellow help box when the mouse is over a row from a datagrid.

Actually i have isolated the row I just need to know how to pop up the yellow help box when mouse over it. You know, this box that you don't need to click Ok or anything, just like a comment bubble.

Thanks

Bob Learned

1) .NET version

2) You are looking to set a ToolTip.

Bob

TheSonics

ASKER

Yeah tooltip

ToolTip1 as New ToolTip
ToolTip1.setTip(control, string)
the problem is that i do not know what control to link with.

Framework 1.1

TheSonics

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And to be more exact, i wish to link every component of my datagrid to a tooltip, i was thinking of doing a check on the row number and simply link to a column.

Bob Learned

1) Use the DataGrid MouseMove event

2) Perform a HitTest on the mouse coordinates

3) Get the RowIndex from the HitTest

4) Get the value to display as help

5) Set the Tooltip to the DataGrid, and the help value that you got from the DataGrid.

Bob

TheSonics

ASKER

I did all of this, but the Tooltip is linked to the whole datagrid, so as long as the mouse is on the datagrid the tooltip stays poped

TheSonics

ASKER

Is there a way (like CType) that i could convert a System.Data.DataColumn to System.windows.form ?

Bob Learned

Are you asking a different question, or does that apply to this question?

Bob

TheSonics

ASKER

Well, it is a clearer question :

Tooltip requires a control of type System.windows.form, linking to the whole DataGrid is working, but the tooltip will stay visible as long as the mouse is somewhere in the Datagrid (which represent the whole form). So I was kinda wondering if there was a way to link my Tiptool to the column. Another interesting would be to derivated a class where the visible option. I'd rather use some .NET tools.

Best Regards.

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