wERE CAN I FIND HELP TO CREATE HELP HINT ON BUTTON ect (1 Viewer)

MIkeD666

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Hi all am trying to find out how to add help hint or note to a project. Does ant know were i could find some help on how to do it
 

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Use the controltip you can add one into the property sheet or format one in code
 

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MickJav mentioned ToolTip as a possible "quick and dirty" solution.

Uncle Gizmo has a more elaborate solution.

What I did was "in the middle" between those two extremes. My method was very tedious but not difficult at all. It was also very fast.

Step 1 was that EVERY FORM that could be used to enter, edit, or otherwise interact with data, through bound or unbound controls, had a big unbound label on it labeled "Help & Hints." This box, because it was a label, could not itself gain focus.

Step 2 was that every control that could gain focus, whether it was a text box, combo box, list box, check box, or radio-button group, had a .GotFocus routine that loaded help text to the Help & Hints box's .Caption property. The same control's .LostFocus erased it. I was doing other things including setting and clearing highlighting on those controls anyway (to emphasize the location of the focus), so it was a convenient place to make the help text come in or go away.
 

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MickJav mentioned ToolTip as a possible "quick and dirty" solution.

Uncle Gizmo has a more elaborate solution.

What I did was "in the middle" between those two extremes. My method was very tedious but not difficult at all. It was also very fast.

Step 1 was that EVERY FORM that could be used to enter, edit, or otherwise interact with data, through bound or unbound controls, had a big unbound label on it labeled "Help & Hints." This box, because it was a label, could not itself gain focus.

Step 2 was that every control that could gain focus, whether it was a text box, combo box, list box, check box, or radio-button group, had a .GotFocus routine that loaded help text to the Help & Hints box's .Caption property. The same control's .LostFocus erased it. I was doing other things including setting and clearing highlighting on those controls anyway (to emphasize the location of the focus), so it was a convenient place to make the help text come in or go away.
thanks for your replay, i have now found what i was looking for, very near to your idea
 

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I don't like control tips as there is a delay before the text appears and it fails if there is another control 'ln top'
For future reference, you can also add messages to the status bar. However status bar text is small and easy to miss.

I have a similar help system to the Doc, but using a MouseMove event instead of GotFocus.
As the user moves over the control the help text appears on an unbound textbox or unassociated label.
It disappears automatically when the user moves away.
 

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I don't like control tips as there is a delay before the text appears and it fails if there is another control 'ln top'
For future reference, you can also add messages to the status bar. However status bar text is small and easy to miss.

I have a similar help system to the Doc, but using a MouseMove event instead of GotFocus.
As the user moves over the control the help text appears on an unbound textbox or unassociated label.
It disappears automatically when the user moves away.
thanks for the idea, you have given me food for thought
 

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