Creating a Tool Tip for a Toolbar Button

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To create a tool tip

Select the toolbar button.
In the Properties Window, in the Prompt property field, add a description of the button for the status bar; after the message, add \n and the tool tip name.

A common example of a tool tip is the Print button in WordPad:

Open WordPad.
Hover your mouse pointer over the Print toolbar button.
Notice that the word 'Print' now is floating under your mouse pointer.
Look at the status bar (at the very bottom of the WordPad window) – notice that it now shows the text "Prints the active document".

The 'Print' in Step 3 is the "Tool tip name," and the 'Prints the active document' from Step 4 is the "description of the button for the status bar."

If you want this effect using the Toolbar editor, you set the Prompt property to Prints the active document\nPrint.

Note

You can edit prompt text using the Properties Window.

For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms and Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.

Requirements

MFC or ATL

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