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Multiline balloon toolti

Adding multiline balloon tooltips to ListView column headers

Operating system
9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/Windows 10/11
File size
11 KB
License
Freeware
Last updated
Jan 22, 2025

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Overview

What is Multiline balloon toolti?

Adding multiline balloon tooltips to ListView column headers

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The attached code demonstrates a technique you can use to create multiline balloon tooltips for ListView column headers.The code uses subclassing technique to trap the WM_MOUSEMOVE event of the Header control which is a constituent part of the ListView control. The handler for this event determines the index of the column header under the mouse pointer and changes the tooltip text respectively; it uses the HDM_HITTEST message for this purpose.To find the handle of the Header control inside ListView from MSCOMCTL.OCX, the code uses the FindWindowEx function which searches for the child window with the 'msvb_lib_header' class inside the ListView control. The code also can be used to subclass the 'pure' ListView control (its class name is 'SysListView32'); to do it, you must replace the 'msvb_lib_header' string on 'SysHeader32'.The sample creates MS Windows tooltips with the CreateWindowEx function passing to this function the 'tooltips_class32' class name. Balloon tooltips work only in Windows ; in the previous versions of Windows you'll see old-style rectangular tooltips.You can use this technique to create multiline balloon tooltips for any control that contains Windows Header control. For instance, we use this technique to create such tooltips for the grid control we produce (10Tec iGrid ActiveX control - visit www.10Tec.com

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Multiline balloon toolti runs on 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/Windows 10/11 and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 11 KB. We’ve catalogued it under Visual Basic and .NET.

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Publisher
10Tec.com/
Last updated
Jan 22, 2025
License
Freeware
Operating system
9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/Windows 10/11
File size
11 KB
Price
Free
Page views
568

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