Extracted from this thread: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....=1#post5612930

Question for you Olaf, I am using your code and methods described in the OP so it is relevant to that thread.



First of all this image shows the RC6 stopwatch (left) and the old Yahoo widget version (right).

Note the clarity of the RC6 version versus the non-DPI aware Yahoo widget version. All good. The UI elements are all interacting with the user 90% perfectly. Some more to do.

My question: Note the tooltips on RC6 (on the left) being exceedingly small so that they are unreadable. They resize along with the resizing of the gauge as a whole, that functionality is something that is rather unwanted on a dynamically resizable program like mine. On the right is a static tooltip, system-like that does not change in size. That is what is needed really for useful operation in a UI. Is it possible to constrain the tooltip size so that it appears static or is it possible to use standard system tooltips rather than the RC6 types.

I do like the tooltips I just don't want them to be smaller than how they will be useful.

Your thoughts please.

PS For reference purposes to show the actual scale of the resized versions, this is an image of the two versions side by side on my desktop. The top image is just a crop of that, with the tooltips shown.