Access ToolTipText of Windows Controls like StartMenu's ToolTipText

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Hi Expert
Am Developing an application in which i need to access tooltip text from the operating system as well its application's window
I want to access tooltip text from the Start Menu as well from any i-con exist on the Desktop.
So plz give me hint how could I access ToolTip Text on mousemove and store in a application's textBox Control.
"I Need to access ToolTip From Start Button And Its Sub Menu's ToolTip from my application. All The Desktop's ICON's ToolTip. This is my Requirement, PLZ HELP...."
PLZ Explain The Complete process for this...
Great Thank in Adv...

Posted 22-Aug-11 6:27am

R. S. Verma

Updated 22-Aug-11 19:39pm

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Solution 1

Try to use this one CXInfoTip - Information Tooltip.

Posted 22-Aug-11 8:05am

Sergey Chepurin

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R. S. Verma 23-Aug-11 1:13am

Hi Sergey
Great Thanks For the reply
But I have this kind of solution already
My requirement is different.
"I have to access tooltip Text From Start Button at bottom-left and its Start menu contents, not to from application itself".
For Example ToolTip From Close Button,Maximize, Minimize and from any tool bar of any application, Desktop icon's tooltip Text I Need.
I hope You got my Question
Thnks

Sergey Chepurin 23-Aug-11 5:35am

ToolTips are not easy to implement in Win32, easier in MFC. I just proposed this solution, because nobody seemed to have one. I don't think you will find anything with such attitude, but good luck anyway.

R. S. Verma 23-Aug-11 6:54am

Oh parden me sir if u got wrong anything in my statement ... but i didnt mean anything which have attitude..
well thanks for suggestion...

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T22:23:00

Solution 3

I would think the only way to do this would be by using Windows Hooks[^] and activating your app on the appropriate messages. I have not used this feature much myself but there are probably some articles about it somewhere on the net.

Posted 23-Aug-11 22:23pm

Richard MacCutchan

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R. S. Verma 25-Aug-11 2:33am

Thanks Rechard,
Its really help full...

R. S. Verma · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-29T00:36:00

I used following code snipet for solving my problem :

hWndToolTip = ::FindWindow("tooltips_class32",NULL);
iToolTipLen = ::SendMessage(hWndToolTip,WM_GETTEXTLENGTH,0,0);
strToolTipText = new TCHAR[iToolTipLen]; // Allocate the buffer
::SendMessage(hWndToolTip,WM_GETTEXT,(WPARAM)iToolTipLen+1,(LPARAM)strToolTipText ); // Get the needed text in strToolTipText

Thanks :)