carriage returns in tooltiptext?

[joblake]

For the sake of improved formatting, is it possible to put carriage returns in tooltiptext strings?

[peet]

I'v tried but failed

never seen that done to the standard tooltip text.

[kovan]

no you cant with regular coding
you either need to look into some APIS (dont know if there is any)

or make your own tooltiptext

make a form, no borders, etch
and send text to this form when you want tooltiptext
from there your not limited to what you want it to look like

[kovan]

there was an activex control that did this
crap i forgot what it was called, pretty much did what i described above (with colours and stuff )

[rockies1]

Deborah Cooper wrote an article at ElementK for their Inside Visual Basic newsletter that does this with tool tips.

Check out http://www.elementkjournals.com/ivb/0105/ivb0151.htm for the details.

There is an improved version she put out, but it's a subscriber-only article...I can't find any info on whether the code is sharable or not...I'll keep looking.

Hopet this helps!

[joblake]

Thanks Rockies1!