How can I break the tool tips (tip strips) into to seveal lines?

[MartinManscher]

I use the tip in "Description and tip..." to display tool tips (tooltips, tip strips, help cues, the little yellow strips with helpful information about a control). Some of the help messages are long, but the tips are still displayed on one line. In some cases the whole text can not be read because the tip is wider than the screen. I would like to be able to specify a maximum width of the tip, or to be able to manually insert line breaks.

[Nick_Storton]

Hi Martin,

I am not aware of any way of limiting the tip strip width or making it multi line. According to LabVIEW help Tip strips are brief descriptions that appear when you move the cursor over an object while a VI runs and the max length should not exceed 80 Chars.

Nick

[alipio]

hello Martin.

If using labview 7, just type return as standard in any multiline text. The tip strip will be multiline.


Hope this helps

[MartinManscher]

I am using LabView 6.1. I was trying to enter the tip using the tip dialog box ("Description and tip..."), and here you cannot use the return key. Sending a multiline string to the "Tip strip" property of the control's property node works, however. Thanks for your help!

Martin

[Nick_Storton]

Hi Alipio,

Good call. I tried this in LV7 from the description and Tip from the pop up menu and it would not work , it would not accept a return, but if I create a property node for the control / indicator and wire in a multi line string constant it works great. I must remember this for future use.

Thanx,

Nick

[alipio]

Hi Nick
Actually, I write multiline string up to 256 char long in worpad. Then, I copy and paste into de tip dialog from pop up menu and it works fine.

Hope it helps.
Alipio

[Nick_Storton]

Hi Alipio,

Thanx for that it will be useful in the future.

Nick

[MartinManscher]

Added note: If you already have tips that you need to format, just cut a linebreak from an editor and paste it into the tips.