Visual Basic :: Tooltips On Demand

Auto Install On Demand?
Okay.. i am looking for a tutorial of somekind to installo game patches online. my online game will be like most and have updates. so i need to make it check for the updated version. then i need to install it on demand with no control to the player. it just patches the game. any tutorials out there? Ty

PS: Second Post

Demand For Visual Basic
Hi!

I'm a business education teacher who teaches an introductory Visual Basic class every other year. No other programming class is offered at our high school.

I see by this site that Visual Basic must still be popular, so I have a few questions:

1. Should we be offering a programming language other than Visual Basic?
2. How difficult is it to convert to Visual Basic.Net?
3. Do you think we should be converting to Visual Basic.Net, or should we stick with Visual Basic? The local technical school offers both.
4. Does anyone know of a source for VERY inexpensive copies of Visual Basic 6, working edition? I have two that came with books from Lawrenceville Press. I don't use the books, but I need a licensed copy of the program for each computer I have--or an inexpensive networkable version. The Internet sites I've found for prices list it at about $800, which is high for the enrollment of the class.

I'd appreciate help or answers to any of the questions. Thanks.

Modidying Array On Demand
I'm having a little problem that i'm confusing myself with right now.. I have an array to store products, when when the user wants to remove a product, i want it to remove the product from the array and update it so the count is still valid.. like product(1) = chair, product(2) = sofa, product(3) = tv.. if the user removes the sofa then it'll be product(1) = chair, product(2) = tv, and so on.. I'm playing with this code but i'm not sure if it will work:

for x = 1 to numproducts
if product(x) <> removedproduct then
tmparray(x) = product(x)
end if
next x

i'm thinking that this doesnt do my help as it might still leave a blank space at the place of product i want to remove.. does anyone have any suggestions or comments, it would help out a lot.. thanks

Is MCSD Certification Still Useful && In Demand ?
hi,

can anyone please advice me on whether to take the current mcsd exam or wait for the new .net track & take that.

please advice & help.

thanks

bye

pratik

Call Screen Saver On Demand?
Is there an API that will call the screen saver at any time I want? Anyone's assistance in posting such APIs would be greatly appreciated.

Is Mcsd With Vb6 , Sql Server 7,anl. Sill Useful && In Demand ?
hi,

i have read on the net that in start of 2002 microsoft is going to launch its .net mcsd track.

so in accordance with this will the old mcsd still be in demand & useful

please reply .

thanks

bye

pratik

On-demand Loading Treeview (RESOLVED)
Hi,

I've modified my treeview so it will load only the subitems needed for a specific node.

It works fine when the text is clicked, but clicking the '+' does not trigger that routine.

How can I catch the click on the '+', and is it possible to have the tag returned so I can use that as input in my routine to load the subitems?

Kind regards

How To Do A Page-on-demand In Report Viewer?
I will export a big report And there are a lot of data needed to transfer from database to report viewer. In order to decrease display and print waiting time, i hope to only pull the data that i 'm see and print.

Sorry for my english. Please help me

Thanks

Winsock Problem...Load On Demand IS QUICKER??!!
I have 3 classes: User, Usertasks and Usertask.

User has an ID and a Username field, Usertask has an ID, Description and UserID fields...
I have 4 users:

User 1 has 350 tasks
user 2 has 6 tasks
User 3 has 1000 tasks
User4 has 0 tasks

Now, to load these, I can do 1 of 2 things...Load users with tasks, or without. If I load users WITH tasks then the call to the server creates a large structured XML doc and passes EVERYTHING back to the client in one call.
If I load users WITHOUT tasks then the data sent back from the server is just the user data. If I try and access a users tasks then it loads them from the sevrer for each user I try and access, thus Load on demand...

Now this is done using TCP/IP winsock thingy...BUT
If I load ALL data in ONE call to the server it takes 1.2 seconds.
If I load ALL data by only loading the users then loading each of the user tasks in turn, load on depand, 5 calls to the server, then it takes 1 second!!!

WHAT?!
WHY?!

EH?!

Surely it shoudl be the otehr way around????

Unless there is a thing with winsock where sending large amounts of data in one go is slower than 5 smaller calls...which is what the bench testing has suggested....

Any ideas???

Woka

PS I am using cSocket, not Winsock...

Really Stupid Question... RESOLVED, Although Still Available Due To Popular Demand
Right...

If I want to enter a line of text into a file called test.txt... how would I do it?

What would happen if there's already text in the file... i need it to add the line, and NOT overwrite the file completely.

So the user enters a line which says...

"Stupid question"

The test.txt file would read...

Stupid question

The next user enter's...

"Need an answer"

The test.txt would then read...

Stupid question
Need an answer

Any ideas please... my mind's gone totally dead this evening. Anyone want to sell their's ?

Regards,

Paul.

How Use Modem To Develop Software For Video On Demand
Pl. Any 1 help me

I m developing software for Video on demand to play songs only using MODEM

Song part is allready completed. Now i m not able to use modem in my software has yet i m not confirm eighter i should use MSCOMM OCX or TAPI3 . Make sure i m using Modem.

!! What i want !! my software is for cable tv operator . when scustomer dial no by phone (which is connected in my computer. ) my software playing song while playing song detect Dile tone, after 4 ring computer should reply welcome please select category, ( cetegoury will show on tv screen over playing song . Play song display list over song i have done this part of software). when customer press number like 01,02,03 from Phone computer detect no and play that song

IN brif i want 1. Detect Dial Tone from when phone is ringing , 2. after 4 ring pick up the line and reply wave file, 3. While playing wave file when customer press DIgit from Phone detect number theat value supply to variable my program will play particaular Song

I m USING VB6

Please Please help me

MSFlexGrid (locating And Coloring Specific Cells On Demand)
Anyone out there know if it is possible to do the following with an MSFlexGrid?

- Click on a CommanButton (cmdFind).
- Search the MSFlexGrid for data specified by the user (GridMasterTierList)
- Scroll to the 1st cell in the grid which contains the data specified by the user.
- Change the background color of that cell to red.

I am quite a bit of a newbie here. You can try to explain it to me, however, some sample code will likely work best (or if you're feeling energetic write the whole darn thing).

Thanks all...

Tooltips...
I want to add Vbcrlf to tooltips, but they show up as boxes, the code is correct....

i just got

Code:
Sub tooltiphistory1()
Frmmenu.History1.ToolTipText = "11.1: Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf _
& "1. Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded." & vbCrLf _
& "2. Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers' philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights." & vbCrLf & _
"3. Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization." & vbCrLf _
& "4. Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power."
End Sub

i know its LONG but it should work no?

Tooltips
Is it possible to have a customized tool tip style like baloon shape tooltip ? And is it possible to simulate the tooltip ?

Pls give some inputs

Okay, Instead Of Tooltips...
Code:
Private Sub History1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
FrameHistory1.Top = 240
End Sub
how do i make it so when the mouse ISNT on the button, the frame will move to 24000

Tooltips
How can I code something to show a tooltip when I want? How can I format the tooltip to make somethings be bold or italic?

Thanx in advance!

IDE ToolTips
You know when you hover your mouse over a variable while debugging it shows the current value of that variable as a mouse ToolTip.
Is there any settings for this feature as I recently got a new PC but the ToolTips take a good 5 seconds to appear which is extremely frustrating

Thanks guys!

Tooltips On Top?
Hi

I have a form that is constantly (every 5 seconds) being set to float above all windows with the SetWindowPos API. On this form is a toolbar with Tooltips.

My problem is that if the timer is turned on, the tooltips don't show up. (I'm guessing they are falling behind the form). Only when I turn off the timer do they show up. Is there any way I can keep them on top of my floating form?

Thanks.

Tooltips
I've been making a little module that allows a developer to easily create an alternative to the standard windows tooltip. It is far from finished, but it is at the stage where comments and suggestions would be useful.

At the moment it only works with 1 form, but this will soon change.

It's main feature (what i created it for) is to fade in the tip, instead of just showing it, it works by looking at how often the user hovers over a control, and how often they just use what they need. This is used to workout how fast to fade in the tip.

I plan to have this kept in a file, so that the infomation is persistant, although this isn't implimented yet.

So what do you all think?

NOTE: This only works with NT, due to the alpha-blending API

ToolTips In VB
I am using tooltips to display extra data for a grid.

Does anyone know how I can force a CR in ToolTipText?

Tooltips
Is is possible to have a tooltip that appears on more than one line, for example I've got a list box with a list of names in. If I move the mouse over a user I want a tooltip to popup showing some information on the selected user, i.e.

User Name : Person selected in list box + vbNewLine
Age : Age of person + vbNewLine
Address : Address of person

I've tried using vbNewLine in the string but that just puts '|' this in the tooltip.

Any ideas ??

Tooltips
Hi,

Does anyone know how it disable tooltips with API? I would like users to have the option to turn on/off tooltips and I don't want to have to worry about turning each one on and off.

DKCK

ToolTips
Hello,
I have to create an ActiveX control based on TreeView Control. One of requirements is that ToolTip have to appears when the text of Node is long and not fully visible. The standard ToolTip appears behind a form and not visible. I create a ToolTip but it appears to all Nodes ...
Can someone helpp me?
Thanks in advance.

Tooltips
I’m having some trouble and was wondering if someone out there could help
me.
I’m working on a project in VB 6.0 and I need to be able to use tooltips on
a MSChart.
The tooltip should show the true value of the specific column and/or row of
the chart,(without click event).
How do I go about it?

New Tooltips Without Parentcontrol?
hi,

i need to bring up tooltips for several (fix!) positions at my form but there are NO Forms or Controls within which i could bind to a tooltip.

I drawed the objects with line-function.
Best would be something like the tooltip function which can be placed on top at a fixed position. All ToolTip Classes i found need to be bound to a control.

Sure,i could write a special form (show, hide) for this but maybe there are better solutions with api (faster, and resizing by itself)?

Stefan

Tooltips With Labels
I can't seem to find this while searching this forum, probably not using the right search terms.
I have a small monitoring program running by the bottom of the screen, very narrow, and I want quick additional info to appear when hovering. I have the tooltiptext set, but the info I want to hover over is in Labels. I added tooltiptext to one textbox I had and that works, but the tooltip will refuse to display when associated with a label. I kinda like putting the numbers in labels, so they can't have focus and the cursor won't appear if clicked. Am I doing something wrong?

-Tal

Super Tooltips
I would like to know what customization is possible with tooltips. Let me explain... I have seen numerous applications (many of which appeared to be made with visual basic) contain tooltips that consist of a light grey box with (on one end) a yellow area containing an arrow that points toward the component to which the tooltip belongs, is there anything like this that is possible in visual basic?

if my explanation is unclear, you can download a demo copy of WebZip from:

http://www.spidersoft.com/webzip/downloads.asp

thanks

çentipede

çentipede

cent1pede@hotmail.com

Faster ToolTips ??
Is there any way to reduce the time before showing tooltips when mouse is moved over a control?
I need that because I calculated that everybody moves mouse out of controls in my app before tooltip is shown, and tooltip contains important information which should be read.
Ive seen some custom tooltip controls, but it's needed to specify tooltip text for each control in code, and that's too hard, since there's a large number of controls in my app.
Has anyone seen a control which, inserted on form, replaces all standard tooltips, without large amount of code needed ?
(Or does anyone have some other idea ?)

Thanks.

A Label And Tooltips.
I have a label that might get its caption set to a value that will go longer than the labels width. When this happens I want to put ... on the end, cut it down to fit with the ... and then on mousemove show a tooltip of the full caption. Anyone have any simple code for this?

Tooltips Control
What I want to do is add a tooltip to a line. Since the line control has no events, this is a bit difficult. So I made a user control, added a line to it, and added a bunch of code to allow the user to move, resize etc the line. However, the user control doesn't have a tooltip property either.

So is there a way to make the user control (or line control) pop up a tooltip? I suppose I could make my own, with a label etc but I'd rather use the built in windows tooltip control. My initial research indicates that a tooltip control exists for VC++ but I've no idea how I would call it from VB. It seems to be some kind of window class....

Any ideas? I'd prefer to have the tooltip on the usercontrol but alternative solutions are fine. The main criteria is that a tooltip pop up over a line that can be at any angle...

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

Funky Tooltips
I have posted a question similar to this before, but I have been seeing them more and more...

does anyone know how to customize the appearance of tooltips?

IE: Add neat-looking arrows in one side of the tooltip, make multi-line, change colors etc...

or should I try to construct my own tooltips using labels or other controls? If so, how would I code the mouseovers etc....

thanks!!

çentipede

çentipede

cent1pede@hotmail.com

Disable Tooltips
Is there a way to disable tooltips from appearing while editing in Visual Studio 2002? They appear ALL the time and they're getting rather annoying. Attached is an image of an example.

I'm using Visual Studio 2002 in Windows XP. I honestly don't know if it's just VS, or XP in general. I've searched all over VS's help and googled everywhere I could think of.

I hope this is the right forum to post this question. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

ListView ToolTips?
Okay, I solved my earlier problem with the lvwList version of the ListView control, but now I've got a new one: The item ToolTips don't show up in lvwList mode. Any way to fix that?

Looking The API Function For Tooltips
What's the API function for add tooltips for buttons, labels, etc..?
Thanks

Help With Changing Tooltips!
Hello! I'm not sure whether I should be posting in the API forum, but this is my problem:

I've written a net-traffic monitor which works much like the standard windows dial-up monitor, but also logs all incoming/outgoing traffic in an access database.

Now I've got the thing in the system tray and I just wanted to add the functionality of the tooltip to it, just like the standard windows dial-up systray icon. The only trouble is that the tooltip will not update while you have the mouse over it. It will display the current 'Bytes sent: xxxx Bytes received: xxxx', but I want to beable to see the bytes ticking over while the mouse cursor remains over the icon!

I have seen programs that have changing tooltips, but I don't have any success using the Shell_NotifyIcon API call;

I'm setting .szTip to "Bytes received: xxx ..." etc (Part of the NOTIFYICONDATA type required by Shell_NotifyIcon) which is getting called as part of the Timer() event, but it still doesn't update the tooltip on the fly.

Please help me someone!

Extra info:
OS: Win98SE
VB: 6.0

I'm setting the dwMessage parameter of Shell_NotifyIcon to &H0 to add the icon to the system tray, then subsequent calls made by the Timer() event set dwMessage to &H1 (Modify).

I've also just realised that the standard windows dial-up monitor doesn't update it's tooltip either!

Balloon Tooltips
How can I create balloon tooltip through vb?

How do you put icons on this balloon? The standard icons like information, exclamation, critical, etc?

Do anyone have a demo, suggestions?

I will really appreciate it.

Balloon Tooltips
Is there an API to use the balloon tooltips in XP? Or do you have to draw them yourself?

thanks.

Formatting Tooltips?
Is there any way to format a tooltip? I'm looking to make some of the text bold and other text not bold. Thanks.

Tooltips On FlexGrid
I have a MSFlexGrid with 7 columns and two hidden ones (width = 0) on the end.

When the user Mousesover Column 5 I want to display the hidden data in a little pop-up - tooltip ? near to the cell they are over.

I want the tooltip to disappear when they mouseout from the cells in Column 5.
And it needs to be multi-line because the data in will look like:

Serial Number:
1213456789987
Product Category:
7485

Can anyone point me in the right direction please. I have tried using MSFlexGrid1.ToolTipText but I can't get it to display more than one line and I can't get it go away when mouseout occurs.

Cheers

Vb6 Statusbar Tooltips
How does one find the window handle for the tooltips in a statusbar?
I am working with a multi-panel statusbar.

Please Help Tooltips On Toolbar
hi Been using the Microsoft Toolbar control and My tooltips have been working fine but for some odd reason each time I Hover over the buttons nothing happens. Does anyone know why this may be happening Thanks.

Treeview Tooltips?
Is there a way to set my own tooltips to Treeview Nodes??

Missing Tooltips
I've got an application where I have tooltips on most all items, even labels. Within the VB environment, they show up, but the compiled version has 3 labels whose tooltips wont show up. Not sure why. Any suggestions?
I checked and these labels are enabled, so it's not a case of that somehow being set to false. Besides if that were the case, they wouldn't show up within VB when I run it, but under VB, they show up just fine.

This is VB6, by the way.

Tooltips Behind The Form !
When using Toolbar and setting the form to "topmost" the tooltips for the buttons in the toolbar are shown behind the form.
Anyone know how to fix that ??

Tooltips On Button ...
Is there a way to put a Tooltip on a button control in ASP ?

UserControls And Tooltips
I have created a user control which contains a textbox and a combobox. These controls are displayed alternately depending on whether the usercontrol is in an edit mode (cbo) or view mode (text).

When I move the mouse over the controls in the usercontrol the tooltip is not displayed. I see the cursur does not change to the I-Beam.

Any suggestions ...

Tooltips On Demand

How can I display and hide a tooltip with any caption at a certain position on the screen when I want it?