Re: .NET GUI Quirks - By Design?

[Registered User]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:30:40 -0700 (PDT), shalomshachne@g mail.com
wrote:

>Hi -
>
>As I've delved more into programming forms in C#, I'm seeing some
>weird things, which don't (to me) make any sense. As I've Googled
>around on these, it seems like the responses are saying these are "by
>design". (My experience has been in .NET 2.0, so if these issues are
>gone in the newer releases - then I'm just behind the times.)
>
>Hoping to find some wisdom to help correct my concept of how the
>design should be, so maybe future quirks will be more intuitive to
>me. Any insight will be greatly appreciated...
>
>1. Tooltips: Autopop property has hidden undocumented limit. No
>matter how high you set the value, tool tip will disappear after
>around 30 seconds. Does that make sense?

The AutoPopupDelay property determines the length of time the ToolTip
window remains visible if the pointer is stationary inside a ToolTip
region. The ToolTip will be dismissed when the mouse moves or the
AutoPopupDelay expires, which ever comes first.

>Also, once Autopop time has
>expired, returning mouse over control does not redisplay the tool
>tip. I've seen work around code based on resetting tool tip by
>handling Mouse Over/Out events. Do we all need to write handling code
>to get a sane tool tip behavior? (Looking for a reality check
>here...)

ToolTips only appear when the cursor is stationary within the ToolTip
region. Check the ReshowDelay property, if the cursor moves before
this value expires the ToolTip will not be displayed.

regards
A.G.

[Shalom Shachne]

Re: .NET GUI Quirks - By Design?

On Jun 17, 1:59 pm, Registered User <n4...@ix.netco m.comwrote:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:30:40 -0700 (PDT), shalomshac...@g mail.com
wrote:
>

Hi -

>

As I've delved more into programming forms in C#, I'm seeing some
weird things, which don't (to me) make any sense. As I've Googled
around on these, it seems like the responses are saying these are "by
design". (My experience has been in .NET 2.0, so if these issues are
gone in the newer releases - then I'm just behind the times.)

>

Hoping to find some wisdom to help correct my concept of how the
design should be, so maybe future quirks will be more intuitive to
me. Any insight will be greatly appreciated...

>

1. Tooltips: Autopop property has hidden undocumented limit. No
matter how high you set the value, tool tip will disappear after
around 30 seconds. Does that make sense?

>
The AutoPopupDelay property determines the length of time the ToolTip
window remains visible if the pointer is stationary inside a ToolTip
region. The ToolTip will be dismissed when the mouse moves or the
AutoPopupDelay expires, which ever comes first.
>

Also, once Autopop time has
expired, returning mouse over control does not redisplay the tool
tip. I've seen work around code based on resetting tool tip by
handling Mouse Over/Out events. Do we all need to write handling code
to get a sane tool tip behavior? (Looking for a reality check
here...)

>
ToolTips only appear when the cursor is stationary within the ToolTip
region. Check the ReshowDelay property, if the cursor moves before
this value expires the ToolTip will not be displayed.
>
regards
A.G.

Hi A.G. --

Thanks for your response. Actually I tested all the combinations of
of parameters and found that nothing will make it come back.
After a bunch of Googling I saw that a few others reported same
issue. ReshowDelay only affects how long it waits to display next
toolTip on different control, when current tooltip is still
displayed. At some point, someone said they found documentation that
this behavior was by design.

See:

http://www.windows-studio.com/3/cfbc950d5240ae8b.php