popup form possible?

[Trachr]

Im unsure if this is even possible but no harm in asking...

So I have a listbox full of stuff, is it posisble that if one of those items were hovered over that a popup form like a tooltip could popup showing an image or a description? I have both image and description in a table so the info is there, I just dont know if its possible to show it in a tooltip fashion.


Thanks.

 

[burrina]

Don't know why you would want this but you could use a timer event.

HTH

 

[Trachr]

basically I woudl want it so that you could quickly see what something was about without having to open the file... that way you could go through many files quickly looking for the correct record to open

 

[Frothingslosh]

While you can generate a popup when the mouse hovers over a given control, you can't do this for the items inside a list box for a simple reason: there is already a property that applies to mouseovers - "Control Tip Text".

One way to get around this would be to create a separate table that lists, say, all the reports available and has a description field for each report. Create a list box on a form, with the box based on that table, that simply shows report names. Also place a text box on the form label it something like "Description". The textbox itself would be populated by code (like a DLookup) executed via the list box's "on click" property. You could put an 'execute' button next to the description that is disabled when the description is blank, but enabled when it is not.

This technique would work for any database object a user may want to open/run.