Processing Tooltip Notification Messages

A toolbar that has the TBSTYLE_TOOLTIPS style creates a tooltip control, which an application can use to display help text for toolbar buttons. The parent window receives the TTN_NEEDTEXT notification message when the toolbar needs the help text for a button. The tooltip sends the notification in the form of a WM_NOTIFY message. The lParam parameter includes the address of a TOOLTIPTEXT structure that specifies the command identifier of the button for which help text is needed. An application can copy the help text to the structure, specify the address of a string containing the help text, or specify the instance handle and resource identifier of a string resource.

The following example demonstrates how to process the TTN_NEEDTEXT notification.

case WM_NOTIFY:

switch (((LPNMHDR) lParam)->code) {

case TTN_NEEDTEXT:

{

LPTOOLTIPTEXT lpttt;

lpttt = (LPTOOLTIPTEXT) lParam;

lpttt->hinst = g_hinst;

// Specify the resource identifier of the descriptive

// text for the given button.

idButton = lpttt->hdr.idFrom;

switch (idButton) {

case IDM_CUT:

lpttt->lpszText = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_TIPS_CUT);

break;

case IDM_COPY:

lpttt->lpszText = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_TIPS_COPY);

break;

case IDM_PASTE:

lpttt->lpszText = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDS_TIPS_PASTE);

break;

}

break;

}

.

. // Process other notifications here.

.

default:

break;

}

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