I have a small application in which I need to show alerts if a particular condition is met. I have an mdi form and several child forms. Now the best way to show an alert is to show a tooltip on the right side corner of my mdi form. Though this works, but the problem is I want user to close the tooltip once he has read.
Now the tooltip that vb.net provide does not support click events. If I give a long time duration the tooltip would be open all the time and if I give a short duration then it will close quickly.
What can I do ?
Help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
GR
You might consider a statusbar at the bottom of the window instead of a tooltip (like at the bottom of Word). You can intercept clicks on those, split the bar into several sections as necessary, etc.
Alternately, I'd probably code up a little pop up form with no border, min/max.close buttons etc, like a toast message, and show it as necessary, Stick an RTF control on it and you're "tooltips" can be very richly formatted, add a timer and the window can disappear after a short timeout, or intecept the click and close it manually.
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I am developping a Cocoa application and I have a special need. In my main window, when I mouse down on a certain area, a new window (like a complex tooltip) appears. I want to be able to do:
- mouse down on the main window (mouse button stay pressed)
- user moves the mouse on the "tooltip" window and mouseup on it.
My issue is that the tooltip window does nto get any mousevent until the mouseup.
How can I fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Regards,
And it won't since mouse is tracked by the main window. However, you can process mouseUp in the main window, transform click coordinates into the desktop space, get tooltip window frame and check whether the click occurred on the tooltip. After that, you can send a message to the tooltip window manually.
Or you can try to find another way to implement the final goal :) It is usually better to follow the rules, in this case - mouse tracking.