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reply "jicman" <cabrera wrc.xerox.com> writes:
Greetings.

Trying to see if anyone can help with this one...

Chris Miller wrote a wonderful set of libraries for Windows 
programming.  One of the libraries was a ToolTip library that 
when called against an object, when the mouse hovered over that 
object, it will display the string that it was set for that 
sepcific object. Everything is working fine with the exception 
that I would like to break the string set to an specific object 
to multiple lines.  For example, I have set that ToolTip to be,

a=n (not approved)
o=n (not outlooked)
t>0 (total > 0)

but, when I set it, and have tried multiple ways, they all 
display in one line, ie.

a=n (not approved)o=n (not outlooked)t>0 (total > 0)

The code I am using is,

     ttip = new ToolTip;
     ttip.setToolTip(this, "Testing...");
     ttip.setToolTip(find,
         r"
a=n (not approved invoices
o=n (not outlooked projects/tasks
"
         );

I have also tried to use \n and \r\n.  Any other thoughts?
Nov 13 2013
parent reply "jicman" <cabrera wrc.xerox.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 18:58:44 UTC, jicman wrote:

 Greetings.

 Trying to see if anyone can help with this one...

 Chris Miller wrote a wonderful set of libraries for Windows 
 programming.  One of the libraries was a ToolTip library that 
 when called against an object, when the mouse hovered over that 
 object, it will display the string that it was set for that 
 sepcific object. Everything is working fine with the exception 
 that I would like to break the string set to an specific object 
 to multiple lines.  For example, I have set that ToolTip to be,

 a=n (not approved)
 o=n (not outlooked)
 t>0 (total > 0)

 but, when I set it, and have tried multiple ways, they all 
 display in one line, ie.

 a=n (not approved)o=n (not outlooked)t>0 (total > 0)

 The code I am using is,

     ttip = new ToolTip;
     ttip.setToolTip(this, "Testing...");
     ttip.setToolTip(find,
         r"
 a=n (not approved invoices
 o=n (not outlooked projects/tasks
 "
         );

 I have also tried to use \n and \r\n.  Any other thoughts?


Does anyone knows if this is even possible?  Thanks.

josé
Nov 14 2013
parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
Not many D1 users are still here :( I personally, have zero idea 
what library are you even speaking about.
Nov 14 2013
parent reply "jicman" <cabrera wrc.xerox.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 14:38:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

 Not many D1 users are still here :( I personally, have zero 
 idea what library are you even speaking about.


I am talking about this library:
http://www.dprogramming.com/dfl.php

specifically, this object,
http://wiki.dprogramming.com/DflDoc/Tooltip

The idea is to have multiple lines in a hover-mouse like prompt.

Ok, thanks for the reply.  By the way, before D2, there was D1.  
We should always remember our ancestors. :-)

josé
Nov 14 2013
parent reply "Heinz" <thor587 yahoo.com> writes:
You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed value 
using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this you're 
telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and from now 
on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

     ttip = new ToolTip;
     SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
     ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not 
outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

That's it, it works (i tested it).

By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but there's 
this version for D2 (i use both): 
https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl
Nov 14 2013
next sibling parent reply " FrankLike" <1150015857 qq.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:

 You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed 
 value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this 
 you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and 
 from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

     ttip = new ToolTip;
     SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
     ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not 
 outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

 That's it, it works (i tested it).

 By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but 
 there's this version for D2 (i use both): 
 https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl



Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
you can see the fork :
https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl

fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)

Waiting Miller commit it.
Apr 11 2014
parent reply "hicman" <hicman aol.com> writes:
will the library build for x64?


On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 12:33:27 UTC, FrankLike wrote:

 On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:

 You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed 
 value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this 
 you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip 
 and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

    ttip = new ToolTip;
    SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
    ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not 
 outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

 That's it, it works (i tested it).

 By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but 
 there's this version for D2 (i use both): 
 https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl



 Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
 you can see the fork :
 https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl

 fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)

 Waiting Miller commit it.
Apr 12 2014
parent "jicman" <cabrera wrc.xerox.com> writes:
On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 10:41:19 UTC, hicman wrote:

 will the library build for x64?


It will build but not true x64.


 On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 12:33:27 UTC, FrankLike wrote:

 On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:

 You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed 
 value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this 
 you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip 
 and from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

   ttip = new ToolTip;
   SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
   ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not 
 outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

 That's it, it works (i tested it).

 By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but 
 there's this version for D2 (i use both): 
 https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl



 Now, dfl can use the dmd 2.065
 you can see the fork :
 https://github.com/FrankLIKE/dfl

 fork(from https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/)

 Waiting Miller commit it.
Apr 25 2014
prev sibling parent "jicman" <cabrera wrc.xerox.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 16:17:53 UTC, Heinz wrote:

 You have to manually set the tooltip's max width to a fixed 
 value using the tooltip handle and Win32 API, by doing this 
 you're telling the tooltip object it is a multiline tooltip and 
 from now on it will accept \r\n as end of line:

     ttip = new ToolTip;
     SendMessageA(ttip.handle, TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH, 0, 250);
     ttip.setToolTip(find, "a=n (not approved)\r\no=n (not 
 outlooked)\r\nt>0 (total > 0));

 That's it, it works (i tested it).

 By the way, the DFL version on Chris' site is for D1 but 
 there's this version for D2 (i use both): 
 https://github.com/Rayerd/dfl/tree/master/win32/dfl


Sorry for my tardiness in respond, Heinz. And thanks for the 
help.  By the way, for those out there that are not Windows 
friendly like me, :-), I used the following to make it work.

   SendMessageA(ttip.handle, 0x0400 + 24, 0, 250);

Since I got

Error: undefined identifier TTM_SETMAXTIPWIDTH

when building the code.  Thanks again, Heinz.

josé
Apr 25 2014