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Hello,

I'm currently working on an advanced tooltip control, which will replace all tooltips in our application in future and I just began to wonder how to implement custom tooltip in Crainiate component... Currently I can only set a string that will be displayed by the system tooltip, but that's not enough. My tooltip has an API very similar to the one from Windows Forms, so I have 2 main methods of invoking the tooltip: SetTooltip which attaches itself to a control (seems to be impossible in that situation, since the elements are not controls) and Show/Hide pair that can be used to show tooltip explicitly.

The problem is that my tooltip can contain some controls that require user interaction (links for example), so I cannot hide it on OnElementLeave when the mouse moves from the element to the tooltip window, because the user won't be able to click the link.
I would really like to avoid situation, that I will need to integrate the tooltip with Crainiate, I want to keep this component independent, but I don't have any idea how to solve that problem at the moment.

Do you have any tips ?

Hi,

The tooltip used is a standard system.windows.forms.tooltip object. It is attached to the Model control with text depending on the element that is under the mouse.

For easiest integration then, you will need to inherit from the tooltip class.

I managed to get the DotNetBar SuperTooltip control working the diagram elements.  I haven't quite got round to finishing off all the different tooltips for all my shapes but I'd be happy to share how I got it working.

Regards, Carl

 In fact I managed to do it as well by handling some mouse events and manual rectangle checking (I need a possibility to mouseover from the element to the tooltip itself), but I'm still interested in your version. Maybe it's better than mine.

 For now I only handle explicit tooltips that way, but in future I plan to implement it for SetTooltip API as well, so then I will be able to bind tooltip to a specific rectangle on a control.
 

Here is a link to the DotNetBar SuperTooltip.  http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/SuperTooltips.aspx  It comes with the DotNetBar component which is just over $200.

I know that component, because I was doing a research in this topic 2 weeks ago, but unfortunately no component suited our needs, so I started to do a new one from scratch, but it's not a problem at all.

The problem was in connecting the tooltip with Crainiate component, but I managed to do it manually for now.