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Setting ToolTips for Third-Party Controls

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With the ToolTipController component you can set tooltips for any control. At design time, when a ToolTipController is added to a form, all third-party controls publish five new properties. For instance, when a DefaultToolTipController component is added to the form, the following properties appear in the Properties grid.

  • ToolTip on defaultToolTipController1 - Specifies the main text for the control’s regular tooltip.
  • Title on defaultToolTipController1 - Specifies a title for the control’s regular tooltip.
  • ToolTipIconType on defaultToolTipController1 - Allows you to display an icon in the control’s regular tooltip.
  • AllowHtmlText on defaultToolTipController1 (if this option is set to True, HTML tags can be used to format text in regular tooltips).
  • SuperTip on defaultToolTipController1 - Specifies a SuperToolTip, which is an extended version of a tooltip, as it allows you to provide multiple text and image regions in the tooltip.

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You can use the specified ToolTipController’s properties and events to customize content, appearance and behavior settings of tooltips that are set via these properties.

To set tooltips for third-party controls in code, use the following methods.

If you are using a standalone ToolTipController component, use the following methods instead.

It is quite easy to set a regular tooltip for a control. You simply need to specify the text to be displayed within the title and content regions, and the required icon type. Unlike a regular tooltip, a SuperToolTip is represented by a SuperToolTip object. At design time, use the SuperToolTip Editor to create and initialize a SuperToolTip. In code, you need to create a SuperToolTip object manually. Refer to the Creating SuperToolTips topic for more details.