I can't seem to figure out or find the answer to how you would add a tooltip for each item in a combo box using vb.net 2003. Is this even possible, I can't believe that with all the functionality with vb.net that I wouldn't be able to do this. Can anybody help me?
Display a tooltip for each item in a combo box
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kulrom
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Thank you for responding, however when I opened the project, the mouse over on each item didn't work. I looked at your code and I didn't see anywhere that this would happen. Under the sub ComboBox1_MouseHover I changed the code to Me.ToolTip1.SetToolTip(Me.ComboBox1, "hello") to see what it would do, it just gives a tool tip for the combo box, not each item. The way you had it, didn't even give a tooltip for the combo box. Is it possible to set a different tooltip for each item, I need to be able to put acronyms in the combo box, and have a tool tip give the full meaning.
Thank you for all your efforts
Thank you for all your efforts
kulrom
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flann said:
Well, is that what you wanted to do?
Cheers
it's close, but I need to be able to have the tooltip in appear when the menu drops down and you hover over any item. I also need to be able to have the tool tip be different from what is in the combo box. An example would be, SEO would be in the combo box and then when you hover, the tool tip would be Search Engine Optimization.
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Flann
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not without making you're own combo box
kulrom
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If i understand your idea it would be much better if you replace that combo with listbox or listview. Would be more synoptic for the purpose and it's easy to set up tooltip for each item within ... for each item in LV.SelectedItems ... Cheers
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