Edit box balloon tips in WinXP

[sultan_of_6string]

This is pissing me off big time. I have an edit box in a dialog and want to show a balloon tip as soon as the dialog is open:

BOOL Welcome_OnInitDialog(HWND hDlg, HWND hWndFocus, LPARAM lParam)
{
// Display the music folder (as saved in the registry)
SetDlgItemText(hDlg, IDC_MUSIC_FOLDER, g_musicFolder);

WCHAR szTitle\[\] = L"Music Folder";
WCHAR szText\[\] = L"Enter the path to your music folder here, or click browse..";
EDITBALLOONTIP ebt;
ebt.cbStruct = sizeof(ebt);
ebt.pszTitle = szTitle;
ebt.pszText = szText;
ebt.ttiIcon = TTI\_INFO;
Edit\_ShowBalloonTip(GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC\_MUSIC\_FOLDER), &ebt);

return TRUE;

}

It is not working. Yet, when the user clicks the OK button. My WM_COMMAND hander has no problem displaying balloon tip:

void Welcome_OnCommand(HWND hDlg, int nId, HWND hWndCtrl, UINT uCodeNotify)
{
HWND hMusicFolder = GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_MUSIC_FOLDER);

if (nId == IDOK)
{
	g\_musicFolder.GetFromHWnd(hMusicFolder);
	DWORD dwFileAttributes = GetFileAttributes(g\_musicFolder);
	if (dwFileAttributes == 0xffffffff || dwFileAttributes &
		FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_DIRECTORY != FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_DIRECTORY)
	{
		// Select the text in the text box.
		SendMessage(hMusicFolder, EM\_SETSEL, 0, -1);
		// Display a balloon tip.
		**WCHAR szTitle\[\] = L"Invalid folder name";
		WCHAR szText\[\] = L"Please confirm that this is the path to your music folder.";
		EDITBALLOONTIP ebt;
		ebt.cbStruct = sizeof(ebt);
		ebt.pszTitle = szTitle;
		ebt.pszText = szText;
		ebt.ttiIcon = TTI\_WARNING;
		Edit\_ShowBalloonTip(hMusicFolder, &ebt);**
		
		return;
	}

.
.
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}

What's going on? Any fixes?

Thanks

[RaviBee]

The dialog may not have finished initializing until OnInitDialog(). Try setting up the balloon tip within a handler for a fake command (I use IDC_INIT_GUI). Post the command (using PostMessage (WM_COMMAND, IDC_INIT_GUI)) from within OnInitDialog() to ensure that the handler will be executed after the dialog has initialized itself. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com