Tooltip and menu items display in upper left corner of screen

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I have a few buttons in my wpf application, as well as a few Menu's with menu items. The problem is that whenever I hover over my buttons, the tooltip is being displayed at the upper left corner of my screen, and when I click on a menu, the menu items are also displayed on the upper left corner of the screen.

I am currently using Visual Studio 2010, and I am running Windows 7 64bit.

How can I resolve this?

If this would help, here is a sample of a control template used on a button:

XML

<ControlTemplate x:Key="CompileButton" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
    		<Grid ToolTip="Run all test cases" Cursor="Hand">
    			<Ellipse x:Name="ell" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="0">
    				<Ellipse.Fill>
    					<ImageBrush ImageSource="Images/Compile.png"/>
    				</Ellipse.Fill>
    			</Ellipse>
    		</Grid>
            <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="Button.IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                    <Setter TargetName="ell" Property="Opacity" Value="0.7" />
                </Trigger>
            </ControlTemplate.Triggers>
    	</ControlTemplate>

Posted 29-Jul-13 23:13pm

Andrew797

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Naz_Firdouse 30-Jul-13 6:19am

have you set the tooltip for button like this
http://wpftutorial.net/ToolTip.html[^]

Andrew797 30-Jul-13 6:27am

Even setting it like that displays the tooltip at the top, on the left hand side, and not where the mouse cursor is.

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Clifford Nelson · Answer 1 · 2013-07-30T11:11:00

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Think what you need to do is use the ToolTipService.PlacementRectangle http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.tooltipservice.placementrectangle.aspx[^]

Posted 30-Jul-13 11:11am

Clifford Nelson

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Andrew797 31-Jul-13 2:49am

This did not work either.