Tooltips on Menu Items by WinAPI

[Fabio Siciliano]

Hello folks,

Did anybody find how to add tooltips (simple or balloon) to menu items?

Thank you in advance,
Fabio

[Tasp]

Is this what you're looking for?

libertybasiccom.proboards.com/thread/34/create-baloon-tool-tip

[Rod]

Not seen an example of menu tool tips. You might use pop up sub menu but it won’t look like a tooltip. Both main and sub would point to same handler.

[Fabio Siciliano]

Unluckily not, I saw it, but it works on controls like buttons, for instance, not on menu items...

I found the following articles and wonder whether anybody implemented successfully similar techniques in LB and how:

www.codeproject.com/Articles/5478/Tooltips-for-Menu-Item-and-popup-menuitem

stackoverflow.com/questions/41731311/how-to-add-tooltip-to-menu-item

[Tasp]

The only other native way I can think of doing this is to create a graphicbox along the top and use mouse x y events to pop up a nf window.

alternatively you could use bmpbuttons as menu icons and then use the tooptip to work on them.

I have done something similar before but it's not pretty.

[Rod]

You can set an area, as a tooltip area by specifying the xy rectangle. But this would only be useful for static menu items not drop down or cascading. It is discussed in Alyce’s book.