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TcxHintStyleController Class

A hint style controller component.

Declaration

TcxHintStyleController = class(
    TcxCustomHintStyleController
)

Remarks

Hint Style Controller is a non-visual component designed to manage the appearance and behavior of all hints in an application or on a form. The hint style controller affects the hints defined by the Hint property of controls used in an application.

A Hint Example

In Advanced Hint mode, the hint style controller component enables an ellipsis button for the Hint property in the Object Inspector at design time:

An Ellipsis Button Displayed for the Hint Property

A click on this button invokes the Formatted Hint Editor dialog where you can create hints with simple formatting.

The Formatted Hint Editor Dialog

The editor supports the following BBCode-inspired tags:

[B][/B], [I][/I], [U][/U], and [S][/S]
The bold, italic, underline, and strikeout font attributes.
[COLOR][/COLOR] and [BACKCOLOR][/BACKCOLOR]
The font and highlight colors.
[SIZE][/SIZE], [SUP][/SUP], and [SUB][/SUB]
The font size, superscript, and subscript attributes.
[FONT][/FONT]
The font typeface.
[NOPARSE][/NOPARSE]
Allow you to ignore all markup tags within a text range between these tags.
[URL][/URL]
A hyperlink.

The TcxHintStyleController class does not introduce any new functionality. It only publishes properties and events inherited from ancestor classes. Refer to the TcxCustomHintStyleController class description for detailed information on public API members.

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