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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hello again,

Well since the tooltips cannot be used in VDS because of the CPU usage of 99% when you use them. Is there any other alternatives? I would like to have tooltips or something similar like text that changes when the mouse goes over a selected button. Using the dialog set...

Any ideas?

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject:

Sure is, what I do is use a status bar or text somewhere on the
dialog and create a mouseover event to show the "tooltip" in the
status bar or text. If you want an example, let me know.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

The problem I have is that in my event loop there's lots of things that has to be check constantly. So I cannot put a WHILE -WEND in it because the rest of my events or bits of code won't be processed until the user removes the mouse from the "hotspot-Tooltip alternative". But if your example if something else then a while-wend... maybe it could work..

Thanks

LiquidCode · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject:

I posted ToolTip.dsc on VDSWorld. Check it out and see if it will work for you. If not, I'll keep looking for another solution.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I'll try it out to see how it goes...and let you know

Thanks Wink

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Well I just tried your example and on Windows 2000 the CPU jumps to 73% on my machine for the compiled version of tooltip.dsc.

So it's not really an alternative.. Wink

And my application jumped from 4% CPU utilization to 25% by including the example.

My application has more things to do during the event loop and timer so that's why it doesnt jump to 73%. But still 25% is very high.

Thanks anyway,,,

LiquidCode · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2002 8:58 pm Post subject:

Doh!!!

Sorry about that. I'll keep my mind open. Wink