[2008] Tooltip for menu item

[greatchap]

Hello Everyone,

I am using Visual Studio 2008 (with focus in VB.NET). I want to add tooltip to the menu items in the menus I have created.

Now I know that menu items have a property call tooltip and if I type text there, tooltips are displayed. But I want to use tooltip control for that because it gives me flexibility of changing colours or adding a heading to tooltips.

I was able to bound tooltip control for controls on forms like button, textbox etc. But how can I achieve the same for menu items. Basically I want that my tooltips for menus have a heading also and If I want I can change colours.

Help will be appreciated.

Thank You,

Cheers,
GR

[jmcilhinney]

Can't be done. First up, ToolTip doesn't inherit the Control class so it is not a control. It's a component. As for the question, ToolTips can be attached to controls only. The ToolStripMenuItem is not a control either, so a ToolTip component cannot be attached to it. You'd most likely have to inherit the ToolStripMenuItem class and write some cutom code to control how it draws its own tool tip.

[greatchap]

Thanks for the info dude. Though I am not very good with classes, can I get some sample code so that I can implement the same. Cheers.

[jmcilhinney]

I'm afraid I wouldn't know. It's going to be far from trivial and will require a reasonable amount of research as you're going to be getting into the bowels of the class somewhat.

[greatchap]

I guess I will drop the idea of tooltip for menus for a while. It was not very critical anyways.

Cheers ;-)

[docfnt]

I know it's too late for this post, but for future reference, there is a tooltip available in the properties window at the right, for the individual items in the toolstrip. Tooltips cannot be added by code without a lengthy process.