Is it possible to insert a new line (\n) in a tool tip?

[Luis E Cuadrado]

Hello everbody: I was wondering if it is possible to have more than one line in the string that is going to be displayed in a tool tip? I gave it a try with the following code, but is displayed all in one line and there is a small square in between the two strings that I want to display: CString displayLine; CString idString; idString.LoadString(IDS_TT_DCSRAW); displayLine.Format("%s\nHi Res", idString); . . . m_ToolTip->AddTool(this, (LPCTSTR)displayLine,rFileTypeCoord, 1); Is this a Tool Tip attribute that I have to set? Is there another way to put the new line character? Any answer is more than welcome. Best regards, Luis E. Cuadrado :0)

[will1383]

No it is not possible that I can see. I've only seen 1 line, albeit some long ones, but when ever I've added the "\n" I only get the text that comes after the "\n". for example: if the tooltip is "I am having\nsome difficulties" what you see on the screen is "some difficulties" There may be some funky trick to do it, but I haven't yet found one. Hope this helps! Dan Willis

[PJ Arends]

http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/#Tooltips[^]

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[Luis E Cuadrado]

I found a way! Where you create the CToolTipCtrl and and you call the Create() method, you had the following line: m_ToolTip->SendMessage( TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 300); Then in the AddTool() method, you can put \n's and it will add a new line to the tool tip. The code looks pretty much like this: if ( m_ToolTip == NULL ) { m_ToolTip = new CToolTipCtrl; m_ToolTip->Create(this); m_ToolTip->SendMessage( TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 300); } m_ToolTip->AddTool(this, "One line\nSecond Line\nThird line"); m_ToolTip->Activate(TRUE); I did this and it worked. Best regards, Luis E. Cuadrado :0)