VB6 - Customizable Balloon Tooltips for all controls (supports Unicode)

[VanGoghGaming]

This is another spin on "Customizable Balloon Tooltips" for your controls (mainly inspired from Elroy's example in this thread). All relevant code for the tooltips is encapsulated in the "cTT" class which is predeclared for ease of use. This class keeps track of all added tooltips and they are displayed automatically when the user hovers the mouse over a control that has a balloon tooltip attached.

• All tooltips are fully customizable as seen in the screenshot below.
• You can toggle enabling or disabling the display of tooltips either for specified controls or for all at once.
• Once created, a tooltip can be modified later without creating a new one
• The class supports both regular controls (those with a "hWnd" property) as well as windowless controls ("Label" for example)

Here is the demo project: BalloonTooltips.zip

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Very snazzy!

[yokesee]

Very nice job.

It can be done without a resource file, it is to move it to a dll.

greetings

[VanGoghGaming]

As long as the main executable is manifested for the modern theme you should be able to move the "cTT" class into a DLL just fine. You seem to like moving everything to DLLs, maybe make your very own RC# collection!

[yokesee]

As long as the main executable is manifested for the modern theme you should be able to move the "cTT" class into a DLL just fine. You seem to like moving everything to DLLs, maybe make your very own RC# collection!

if I use many DLLs like regfree.
I like to separate my work into dlls, so I can reuse them.

maybe make your very own RC# collection!

I wish I could, my knowledge is reduced

[AAraya]

This looks great!

A couple of questions for you:

1. Does this support unicode text?
2. What does this offer that Elroy's does not?

I'm asking as someone who's already using Elroy's class so trying to figure out if I should switch classes.

[VanGoghGaming]

It's in the thread's title (supports Unicode)...



I recommend you download it and give it a whirl. The whole idea came from the thread linked in the first post. There Elroy posted a BAS module, not a class.

[AAraya]

It's in the thread's title (supports Unicode)...

Haha! Well in my defense I have about a dozen new VBForums threads open at one time that I'm quickly glancing through to see if there's anything new for me to learn.

Thanks for pointing out what I missed.