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Please I need help on how to include balloon
tooltip for textbox in VB.NET
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Updated 23-Mar-12 4:54am
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See following link for windows form :


Balloon Tips Galore![^]
 
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Shahin Khorshidnia 23-Mar-12 10:53am    
+5
gfavour 30-Mar-12 7:15am    
Tanx kumar I editted the code. how am I going to use it on more than one textbox on a form. please help
JavaScript
<style type="text/css">
	
	/* END PART YOU CAN REMOVE */
	
	
	#dhtmlgoodies_tooltip{
		background-color:#EEE;
		border:1px solid #000;
		position:absolute;
		display:none;
		z-index:20000;
		padding:2px;
		font-size:0.9em;
		-moz-border-radius:6px;	/* Rounded edges in Firefox */
		font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Arial, sans-serif;
		
	}
	#dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow{
		position:absolute;
		background-color:#555;
		display:none;
		z-index:10000;
		opacity:0.7;
		filter:alpha(opacity=70);
		-khtml-opacity: 0.7;
		-moz-opacity: 0.7;
		-moz-border-radius:6px;	/* Rounded edges in Firefox */
	}
	</style>
	
	<script type="text/javascript">
	
	var dhtmlgoodies_tooltip = false;
	var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow = false;
	var dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize = 4;
	var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth = 300;
	var dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMinWidth = 100;
	var dhtmlgoodies_iframe = false;
	var tooltip_is_msie = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE')>=0 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('opera')==-1 && document.all)?true:false;
	function showTooltip(e,tooltipTxt)
	{
		
		var bodyWidth = Math.max(document.body.clientWidth,document.documentElement.clientWidth) - 20;
	
		if(!dhtmlgoodies_tooltip){
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltip = document.createElement('DIV');
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.id = 'dhtmlgoodies_tooltip';
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow = document.createElement('DIV');
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.id = 'dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow';
			
			document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_tooltip);
			document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow);	
			
			if(tooltip_is_msie){
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe = document.createElement('IFRAME');
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe.frameborder='5';
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF';
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe.src = '#'; 	
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.zIndex = 100;
				dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.position = 'absolute';
				document.body.appendChild(dhtmlgoodies_iframe);
			}
			
		}
		
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.display='block';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.display='block';
		if(tooltip_is_msie)dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.display='block';
		
		var st = Math.max(document.body.scrollTop,document.documentElement.scrollTop);
		if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('safari')>=0)st=0; 
		var leftPos = e.clientX + 10;
		
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = null;	// Reset style width if it's set 
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.innerHTML = tooltipTxt;
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left = leftPos + 'px';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.top = e.clientY + 10 + st + 'px';

		
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left =  leftPos + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize + 'px';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.top = e.clientY + 10 + st + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize + 'px';
		
		if(dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth>dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth){	/* Exceeding max width of tooltip ? */
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltipMaxWidth + 'px';
		}
		
		var tooltipWidth = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth;		
		if(tooltipWidth<dhtmlgoodies_tooltipminwidth)tooltipwidth>		
		
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.width = tooltipWidth + 'px';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth + 'px';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.height = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetHeight + 'px';		
		
		if((leftPos + tooltipWidth)>bodyWidth){
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left = (dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left.replace('px','') - ((leftPos + tooltipWidth)-bodyWidth)) + 'px';
			dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left = (dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.left.replace('px','') - ((leftPos + tooltipWidth)-bodyWidth) + dhtmlgoodies_shadowSize) + 'px';
		}
		
		if(tooltip_is_msie){
			dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.left = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.left;
			dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.top = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.top;
			dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.width = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetWidth + 'px';
			dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.height = dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.offsetHeight + 'px';
		
		}
				
	}
	
	function hideTooltip()
	{
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltip.style.display='none';
		dhtmlgoodies_tooltipShadow.style.display='none';		
		if(tooltip_is_msie)dhtmlgoodies_iframe.style.display='none';		
	}
	
	</SCRIPT>





and In Textbox

____________________________


<asp:textbox id="TxtSample" runat="server" xmlns:asp="#unknown">
onmouseout="hideTooltip()"

onmouseover="showTooltip(event,'Put Comments or tool tip hare.');return false" >
 
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gfavour 23-Mar-12 10:46am    
I need Window Version of it not ASP.NET. Am building window application not web application. Thanks in advance!
You can do this easily using jQuery[^].

Here's one example in the CodeProject - TextBox With ToolTip Control Implementation[^]

Hope this helps!
 
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Shahin Khorshidnia 23-Mar-12 10:40am    
Are you sure the OP means in ASP.Net?
Ankur\m/ 23-Mar-12 10:52am    
I had a filter to just see web app questions. Somehow I missed noticing asp.net tag in the question. Anyways the OP will reply if he doesn't want this. He should have been more clear though.
Shahin Khorshidnia 23-Mar-12 10:55am    
Ok, She or He wants it for winform:

gfavour - 7 mins ago:
I need Window Version of it not ASP.NET. Am building window application not web application. Thanks in advance!

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