Is it possible to set the length of time that tip strips are displayed?

[MartinManscher]

I want to use tip strips to help my users. I have found out how to break the strips into several lines (max 4 lines though), but if the text is long, the user cannot read it before it disappears (yes, I know that the design guidelines specify max 80 chars, but this is my choice). Is it possible to increase the time that tip strips are displayed?

[zou]

Not sure about LabVIEW tooltip. But if you use window tooltip, you can set popup time, duration, and redraw time. You can also have multiline tooltip.

George Zou
http://gtoolbox.yeah.net

[MartinManscher]

I am not sure waht you mean by window tooltip. Could you please elaborate a bit on the subject?

Martin

[waldemar.hersacher]

Hi Martin,

most non-LV programs use a mechanism build into windows GUI interface to show tooltips. As programmer you have the abability of setting the timings for the tooltips.

LV as a platform independent system uses its own mechanism from the point of a LV programmer. As I know LV does not have any properties to set the timing or style of the tooltip.

Waldemar

[MartinManscher]

Thanks for your reply. Can you give me a hint on how to access the built-in Windows tooltips?

Martin

[waldemar.hersacher]

Hi Martin,

the build in tooltip is a common control. From Visual C++ apps we use the CToolTipCtrl MFC class. I don't know if it has a Active-X interface which you can use from a Active-X container in LV.

Maybe the toolbox from George Zou will have a interface to it.

Waldemar