How to display info. when mouse moves over a disabled button

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Hi There,

It might not be a best suited query without sharing the source code, but if anyone can answer then it will really help.

What i am looking for is a way to display text messages pop-up (sort of like what we get while using tooltip), when mouse/cursor hovers over a disabled button.

Constraints:

1.) Shouldn't be MFC approach
2.) CPP must

Hope someone can guide me with something. Even a tiniest sample code to start with would be much appreciated.

Good day

Abby

Posted 7-Apr-15 4:01am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-15 10:59am

If you are looking for some alternative UI library (yes, there are such libraries), asking a question particularly on tooltips is unwise. You need to consider very many qualities; many are much more important.
—SA

Member 11578992 7-Apr-15 13:25pm

Hi SA, i certainly do understand that but the only constraint of not going for the MFC approach had made it difficult to use tooltip and hence exclusively striking that out.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-04-07T05:07:00

First of all, please see my comment to the question.

If C++ but not MFC (getting rid of MFC could be not a bad idea), you can consider using raw Windows API and writing your own code. Also, you can consider using C++/CLI instead of native C++ and use very rich .NET with its very rich UI libraries.

Other possibilities include more or less cross-platform libraries. Please see my detailed answer: writing c/c++ visual programs (cross-platform) with which IDE and compiler?

See also my past answers:
Visual Studio Application for Target OS Windows and Linux,
How to Compile Visual studio C++ to linux and os-mac,
What`s the Problem with this Plot Program win32[^].

—SA