Hint Bubble

Hint Bubble is a Presentation Manager control delivered in the form of a dynamic link library that displays small text help bubbles, the Hint Bubble control can be attached to any other PM/UI controls to display some helpful information about the control. It is often used in toolbars where the array of icons can become confusing. It normally pops up after some specified time when the user keeps the mouse pointer over the control.

As can be seen here on the side, the Hint Bubble consists of a bubble area in which text is displayed and a triangular piece leading from the attached control. The positioning of the "point" of the triangular piece can be specified absolutely or by mouse pointer position. Also, the "side" on which the bubble appears can be specified through style flags. You do not need to specify a size for the control, as it automatically sizes based upon the text it is to display. You can insert line breaks in the hint text by embedding "\n" in the text. The text will then be displayed as multiple lines in the bubble area.

What to put in the .RC file
When designing a dialog, specify "HINTBUBBLE" for the class name of any Hint Bubble control you would like to use as in: CONTROL "Hint Text", 101, 8, 23, 153, 36, "HINTBUBBLE", WS_VISIBLE

Version

 * Hint Bubble v1 (1995-09-13)

Functions

 * HintBubbleRegister

Control Data

 * WM_SETWINDOWPARAMS

Files

 * BUBBLE.DLL
 * CPMBC21B.DLL

Licence
Freeware

Author

 * Secant Technologies