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Tooltips for dialog controls

Posted by Dave Bixler on August 7th, 1998
Here's a little trick I use to get tooltips into a dialog quickly. I usually put this code into the OnInitDialog. It allows me to easily add tooltips to any dialog quickly.

Add a member to the CDialog or CWnd derived class in the header like: 
CToolTipCtrl    CTTDialog :: m_ToolTip;
In the OnInitDialog or OnInitialUpdate, add: 
m_ToolTip.Create (this);
m_ToolTip.Activate (TRUE);

CWnd*    pWnd = GetWindow (GW_CHILD);
while (pWnd)
{
    int nID = pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID ();
    if (nID != -1)
    {
        m_ToolTip.AddTool (pWnd, pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID ());
    }
    pWnd = pWnd->GetWindow (GW_HWNDNEXT);
}
To add a tooltip to a control, just add a string resource using the same ID as the control to get the tip. If I wanted the OK button to have a tip, I would add a string resource for IDOK.

Also do not forget to put the following code to you dialog class: 
BOOL CTTDialog :: PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg) 
{
    if (m_hWnd)
    {
        m_ToolTip.RelayEvent (pMsg);
        return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
    }
    return (FALSE);
}
That's it.

Last updated: 18 May 1998

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    Originally posted by: Mike Pliam 

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