ToolTip Control in pocket pc.

[memsharp]

How can i use tooltip control in my c# smart device application. i can use it in windows application but the tooltip control is not found in smart device application to use. can any one help me,please. Mohamed Elsaid - Faculty of computers and information - Helwan university - Forth year - Cairo - Egypt

[Colin Angus Mackay]

memsharp wrote: How can i use tooltip control in my c# smart device application. You can't. memsharp wrote: i can use it in windows application but the tooltip control is not found in smart device application to use. can any one help me,please. Tooltips are not supported on the Pocket PC. If you think about it: How would they be activated? There is no mouse pointer to hover over controls, is there?

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[leppie]

Colin Angus Mackay wrote: There is no mouse pointer to hover over controls, is there? But surely u can hover the stylus ;p top secret xacc-ide 0.0.1

[Colin Angus Mackay]

leppie wrote: But surely u can hover the stylus :rolleyes: I tried, but at 1 cm, no reaction. So I tried hovering the stylus at about half a centimetre but still nothing. So I tried at about 1mm but I was not steady enough and hit the button by accident. :-O :-D

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[leppie]

Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I tried, but at 1 cm, no reaction. So I tried hovering the stylus at about half a centimetre but still nothing. You mean your stylus actually hovered? Mine just fell and hit the button, but it didnt repsond ;p top secret xacc-ide 0.0.1

[Colin Angus Mackay]

leppie wrote: You mean your stylus actually hovered? Muggles! :rolleyes:

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[Roman Rodov]

Well Pocket Word for example supports tooltips. To bring up a tooltip I think you Tap-and-Hold the button. It should not bring up the Tap-and-Hold menu but instead it brings up a tooltip.

[Colin Angus Mackay]

I have just looked at a collegue's PocketPC 2003 and I've seen that Word does indeed support tooltips (in that version, I can't confirm other versions at the moment). However, that still does not alter the fact that the .NET Compact Framework does not support tooltips. For example, if you look at the ToolBarControl you will see that the ToolTipText property is not "supported by the .NET Compact Framework". You may be able to find some way to interop with the relevant controls however. As a side note, until your suggestion above, it never occurred to me to even try as the user-interface is not conducive to supporting tooltips in a sensible manner (IMO). The tap-and-hold technique would undoubtedly confuse many who would expect a menu to pop-up.

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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!