Highlight help for controls

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Hi I am making a GUI in Visual C++ in which there are multiple controls.I want some help text to be highlighted whenever I keep my mouse cursor on any control (to give an idea what the control does),to make it user friendly.
Can anyone help please?

Timkee

Posted 30-Jun-10 6:19am

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Shog⁹ 30-Jun-10 13:22pm

Got an example of what you're talking about? Do you mean a "tooltip"?

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DaveAuld · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-30T08:33:00

Solution 1

Drag a Tooltip item from the toolbox onto the Form.

Each control will then have a ToolTip on Tooltip1 property. Set the text to display there.

You can also then dynamically change the tooltip message in code if you want.

Posted 30-Jun-10 8:33am

DaveAuld