Tooltips on MaxGUI buttons?

I can't seem to find any info on doing so? Is it possible at all?

Regards

Ozak

something about adding tags springs to mind

If you are talking about adding tooltips to toolbars, then look here

I think he is talking about normal buttons.
The thing you could do is displaying help texts in the statusbar... :)

There's probably a `mouse enter` event you can get when the mouse enters the button area, in which you can set a flag to say you're inside the button, then you can set a timer, then in the mousedown event you can check for that and if the timer is past a certain amount, temporarily add a little box with a message in it to the GUI, and then when the mouse moves, with a mousemove event, remove it.

ozak, you need to look into the tooltips_class32 class, if you need any help let me now, this is how i have done them in winblitz3d.

kev

Kev, is it possible to have this also with a textfield ? Personnaly, i don't know how to manage/access to the tooltips_class32 class !
Thanks!

@hub, yes ive working tooltip's on textfield in winblitz3d. basicly it possable on most standard winapi gadgets, ive little time to code this up but i will help if anyone wants to do this. athough this would only work under win32, im have no idea under linux or macos.

some c code i use to enable tooltips on any passed gadget, NOTE this is takin from my winblitz3d's sourcecode. so some modifcation would be needed to port it into blitzmax.

 DWORD dwStyle = WS_POPUP  |
                      TTS_ALWAYSTIP | // appears when button active/inactive
                      TTS_NOPREFIX |TTF_IDISHWND;  // don't strip ampersand (&) character

        if(type==1){
                dwStyle = dwStyle | TTS_BALLOON;
        }
        
     HWND hwndToolTip = CreateWindowEx( 0, "tooltips_class32", 0, dwStyle,
                                    CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,CW_USEDEFAULT,
                                    CW_USEDEFAULT, gadget, (HMENU)0,
                                    GetModuleHandle(0),0 ) ;

      //+----------------------------------------------------------+
      //| You must explicitly define a ToolTip control as topmost. |
      //| Otherwise, it might be covered by the parent window.     |
      //+----------------------------------------------------------+
      SetWindowPos( hwndToolTip, HWND_TOPMOST,0, 0, 0, 0,
                    SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE );

      //+------------------------------------------------------------+
      //| Get the bounding rect of the buttons. We will need this to |
      //| fill in the rect member of the TOOLINFO structures.        |
      //+------------------------------------------------------------+
      RECT rc ;
      GetClientRect( gadget, &rc ) ;

      //+--------------------------------------------+
      //| Fill in a TOOLINFO structure for Gadget.   |
      //+--------------------------------------------+
      TOOLINFO ti ;
      ti.cbSize   = sizeof ( TOOLINFO ) ;
      ti.hinst    = GetModuleHandle(0)  ;
      ti.hwnd     = hwndToolTip ;    // tooltip hwnd 
      ti.lpszText = TEXT(tiptext) ; // tooltip for gadget
      ti.rect     = rc ;
      ti.uFlags   = TTF_SUBCLASS | TTF_IDISHWND  ;  // tool tip control handles own messages
      ti.uId = (UINT)gadget; // gadget hwnd to add tooltip

      //+---------------------------------------------------+
      //| Add the tool for Gadget to the ToolTip control. |
      //+---------------------------------------------------+
      SendMessage( hwndToolTip,
                   TTM_ADDTOOL, // Registers a tool with a ToolTip control.
                   0,
                   (LPARAM)(LPTOOLINFO)(&ti) ) ; // address of TOOLINFO struct

kev