Force a Tooltip in a fill-in to Show

[johnMcP]

Does anyone know if there is a way to fire off a tooltip in a fill-in without having focus from the mouse.

Ex. When caps Lock is on and you go to login to an Application you get the ballon tooltip say "Caps Lock Is On".

 

[mpowell_esq]

???

I am not 100% sure if it is possible from Progress. If it is, it will take some very complicated dll calls.
Though I am confused, you have jumped to a conclusion for what you require. Actualy there IS a very simple work around, that is just as effective.
Simply in the block where you require to place this TOOLTIP, just pop up a Progress frame with your required text. Have a WAIT of some sort, to enable the user to read the text then drop the message. This could be the pause command or an iteration loop, get the idea?
Regards

 

[Mike Carroll]

You can probably do this using API calls although I have no idea how. But if you don't already know, try looking on www.global-shared.com. It has a lot of info on API calls and I'm sure that with a bit of investigation, you can develop your tooltip control.

Mike.

 

[johnMcP]

i did get it to work with you suggestions.. thanks