Hello Thanks for the Reply, Have you tried the code. If so please paste your function here, I would be very much greatful to you. As far as my try goes I do get a tracking rectangle follwing my mouse but it keeps blinking all the time I move the mouse and without the text I pasted in the code. bool g_bIsVisible; HWND g_hwndTT; void CTestDlg::TooltipFunc() { INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icex; HWND hwndTT; TOOLINFO ti; // Load the tooltip class from the DLL. icex.dwSize = sizeof(icex); icex.dwICC = ICC_BAR_CLASSES; if(!InitCommonControlsEx(&icex)) return NULL; RECT rect; GetClientRect (&rect); // Create the tooltip control. hwndTT = CreateWindow(TOOLTIPS_CLASS, TEXT(""), WS_POPUP, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, (HMENU)NULL, AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance, NULL); // Prepare TOOLINFO structure for use as tracking tooltip. ti.cbSize = sizeof(TOOLINFO); ti.uFlags = TTF_IDISHWND | TTF_TRACK | TTF_ABSOLUTE; ti.hwnd = m_hWnd; ti.uId = (UINT)m_hWnd; ti.hinst = AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance; ti.lpszText = "Hello World"; ti.rect.left = ti.rect.top = ti.rect.bottom = ti.rect.right = 0; // Add the tool to the control, displaying an error if needed. if(!::SendMessage(hwndTT,TTM_ADDTOOL,0,(LPARAM)&ti)){ MessageBox("Couldn't create the tooltip control.", "Error",MB_OK); return NULL; } // Activate (display) the tracking tooltip. Then, set a global // flag value to indicate that the tooltip is active, so other // functions can check to see if it's visible. ::SendMessage(hwndTT,TTM_TRACKACTIVATE,(WPARAM)TRUE,(LPARAM)&ti); g_bIsVisible = TRUE; g_hwndTT = hwndTT; } void CTestDlg::OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) { // TODO: Add your message handler code here and/or call default if(g_bIsVisible){ #define X_OFFSET 15 #define Y_OFFSET X_OFFSET POINT m_point; ::GetCursorPos(&m_point); ::SendMessage(g_hwndTT, TTM_TRACKPOSITION, 0, (LPARAM)MAKELPARAM(m_point.x + X_OFFSET, m_point.y + Y_OFFSET)); } CDialog::OnMouseMove(nFlags, point); } BOOL CTestDlg::OnNotify(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, LRESU

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Hello Everyone, Can someone please tell a way to create tracking tooltip. Please note I have already tried the MSDN Libary tracking tooltips code, but failed to achieve the objective. Kindly help. Regars Ashwin

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