Greetings.

Trying to see if anyone can help with this one...

Chris Miller wrote a wonderful set of libraries for Windows programming.  One of the libraries was a ToolTip library that when called against an object, when the mouse hovered over that object, it will display the string that it was set for that sepcific object. Everything is working fine with the exception that I would like to break the string set to an specific object to multiple lines.  For example, I have set that ToolTip to be,

a=n (not approved)
o=n (not outlooked)
t>0 (total > 0)

but, when I set it, and have tried multiple ways, they all display in one line, ie.

a=n (not approved)o=n (not outlooked)t>0 (total > 0)

The code I am using is,

    ttip = new ToolTip;
    ttip.setToolTip(this, "Testing...");
    ttip.setToolTip(find,
        r"
a=n (not approved invoices
o=n (not outlooked projects/tasks
"
        );

I have also tried to use \n and \r\n.  Any other thoughts?

On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 18:58:44 UTC, jicman wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> Trying to see if anyone can help with this one...
>
> Chris Miller wrote a wonderful set of libraries for Windows programming.  One of the libraries was a ToolTip library that when called against an object, when the mouse hovered over that object, it will display the string that it was set for that sepcific object. Everything is working fine with the exception that I would like to break the string set to an specific object to multiple lines.  For example, I have set that ToolTip to be,
>
> a=n (not approved)
> o=n (not outlooked)
> t>0 (total > 0)
>
> but, when I set it, and have tried multiple ways, they all display in one line, ie.
>
> a=n (not approved)o=n (not outlooked)t>0 (total > 0)
>
> The code I am using is,
>
>     ttip = new ToolTip;
>     ttip.setToolTip(this, "Testing...");
>     ttip.setToolTip(find,
>         r"
> a=n (not approved invoices
> o=n (not outlooked projects/tasks
> "
>         );
>
> I have also tried to use \n and \r\n.  Any other thoughts?

Does anyone knows if this is even possible?  Thanks.

josé

Not many D1 users are still here :( I personally, have zero idea what library are you even speaking about.

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 14:38:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Not many D1 users are still here :( I personally, have zero idea what library are you even speaking about.

I am talking about this library:
http://www.dprogramming.com/dfl.php

specifically, this object,
http://wiki.dprogramming.com/DflDoc/Tooltip

The idea is to have multiple lines in a hover-mouse like prompt.

Ok, thanks for the reply.  By the way, before D2, there was D1.  We should always remember our ancestors. :-)

josé

You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

    ttip = new ToolTip;
    SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
    ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

That's it, it works (i tested it).

By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's this version for D2 (i use both): https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:
> You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:
>
>     ttip = new ToolTip;
>     SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
>     ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));
>
> That's it, it works (i tested it).
>
> By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's this version for D2 (i use both): https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl


Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
you can see the fork :
https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl

fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)

Waiting Miller commit it.

will the library build for x64?


On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 12:33:27 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:
>> You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:
>>
>>    ttip = new ToolTip;
>>    SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
>>    ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));
>>
>> That's it, it works (i tested it).
>>
>> By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's this version for D2 (i use both): https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl
>
>
> Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
> you can see the fork :
> https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl
>
> fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)
>
> Waiting Miller commit it.

On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 10:41:19 UTC, hicman wrote:
> will the library build for x64?

It will build but not true x64.

>
> On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 12:33:27 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:
>>> You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:
>>>
>>>   ttip = new ToolTip;
>>>   SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
>>>   ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));
>>>
>>> That's it, it works (i tested it).
>>>
>>> By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's this version for D2 (i use both): https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl
>>
>>
>> Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
>> you can see the fork :
>> https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl
>>
>> fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)
>>
>> Waiting Miller commit it.

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:
> You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:
>
>     ttip = new ToolTip;
>     SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
>     ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));
>
> That's it, it works (i tested it).
>
> By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's this version for D2 (i use both): https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl

Sorry for my tardiness in respond, Heinz. And thanks for the help.  By the way, for those out there that are not Windows friendly like me, :-), I used the following to make it work.

  SendMessageA(ttip.handle, 0x0400 + 24, 0, 250);

Since I got

Error: undefined identifier TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH

when building the code.  Thanks again, Heinz.

josé