Mouseover Event

Quick overview:

I am trying to improve our library access system, and one of the features I would like to do is to be able to have book info displayed on a mouseover event. So, they will mouseover the title, and I want it to pop up info, and disappear on mouseout.

This is using VB.NET, I've got my interface down, but I need some guidance with this feature.

Does anyone have any code examples or can point me in the right direction? (didnt find what I needed in this forum's search)

I think you'll need to give us some idea of how the interface is set up. Are the book titles being displayed in a listbox, etc.

Quick overview:

I am trying to improve our library access system, and one of the features I would like to do is to be able to have book info displayed on a mouseover event. So, they will mouseover the title, and I want it to pop up info, and disappear on mouseout.

This is using VB.NET, I've got my interface down, but I need some guidance with this feature.

Does anyone have any code examples or can point me in the right direction? (didnt find what I needed in this forum's search)

what you're looking for is a tooltip


Dim myToolTips As New ToolTip
Private Sub Button7_MouseEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button7.MouseEnter
myToolTips.SetToolTip(Button7, "this button is nice")
End Sub

Private Sub Button7_MouseLeave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button7.MouseLeave
myToolTips.RemoveAll()
End Sub

Right now I've got them in a list box. I think I'm going to have them in a datagrid in the end though.

The tooltip rocks. Thanks!

what you're looking for is a tooltip


Dim myToolTips As New ToolTip
Private Sub Button7_MouseEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button7.MouseEnter
myToolTips.SetToolTip(Button7, "this button is nice")
End Sub

Private Sub Button7_MouseLeave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button7.MouseLeave
myToolTips.RemoveAll()
End Sub


Cool tip, one question?

If you use very many of these tips, it will make your main code pretty L-O-N-G. How can these be moved to another module?


Thanks,

Gary

Actually, you can drag and drop the Tooltip control from the toolbox to your form. Then go to each control you want the tooltip to display info for --you'll see a property called "Tooltip on Tooltip1" or something: enter the text you want to appear for that control. This method requires no code.