toolTip with more than 1 line

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Jun 6 21:18:47 EDT 2004


> i know that the info in a toolTip should be short,
> but sometimes it's more readable when there are 2 or 3 small lines in 
> a toolTip.
> 
> 
> The Dict says:
> "
> The toolTip of a control is a single line of text.
> "
> 
> So, is there no way?

Using the normal tooltip mechanism, no. But you can fake your own with a
palette stack, a single field, and trapping mouseenter/mouseleave from a
frontscirpt.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/




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