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Balloon Tooltips
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Title: Balloon Tooltips
Question: How to create balloon style tooltips like windowsxp does ???
Answer:
uses
commctrl;
...
const
TTS_BALLOON = $40;
TTM_SETTITLE = (WM_USER + 32);
var
Form1: TForm1;
hTooltip: Cardinal;
ti: TToolInfo;
buffer : array[0..255] of char;
...
procedure CreateToolTips(hWnd: Cardinal);
begin
hToolTip := CreateWindowEx(0, 'Tooltips_Class32', nil, TTS_ALWAYSTIP or TTS_BALLOON,
Integer(CW_USEDEFAULT), Integer(CW_USEDEFAULT),Integer(CW_USEDEFAULT),
Integer(CW_USEDEFAULT), hWnd, 0, hInstance, nil);
if hToolTip 0 then
begin
SetWindowPos(hToolTip, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE or
SWP_NOSIZE or SWP_NOACTIVATE);
ti.cbSize := SizeOf(TToolInfo);
ti.uFlags := TTF_SUBCLASS;
ti.hInst := hInstance;
end;
end;
procedure AddToolTip(hwnd: dword; lpti: PToolInfo; IconType: Integer; Text, Title: PChar);
var
Item: THandle;
Rect: TRect;
begin
Item := hWnd;
if (Item 0) AND (GetClientRect(Item, Rect)) then
begin
lpti.hwnd := Item;
lpti.Rect := Rect;
lpti.lpszText := Text;
SendMessage(hToolTip, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, Integer(lpti));
FillChar(buffer, sizeof(buffer), #0);
lstrcpy(buffer, Title);
if (IconType 3) or (IconType SendMessage(hToolTip, TTM_SETTITLE, IconType, Integer(@buffer));
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
CreateToolTips(Form1.Handle);
AddToolTip(Memo1.Handle, @ti, 1, 'Tooltip text', 'Title');
end;
{
IconType can be:
0 - No icon
1 - Information
2 - Warning
3 - Error
}
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