Re: on WM5, is it possible to have tooltips in a Toolbar (i.e. not a CommandBar) ?

Okay, when you said:

on Pocket PC WM5, since the Command Bar cannot contain icons

I thought you meant it didn't work at all, as opposed to it being against
the UI guidelines.

Cheers

"The PocketTV Team" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On WM5, if you follow the Microsoft UI guideline, the command bar (at the
bottom of the screen) contains only two items (buttons or menus) that are
associated with the soft-keys buttons, and the only icon is the SIP icon
(in the middle), if the SIP is enabled.

If you use the PPC2003-style command bar on a WM5 device, you do not
comply with the MSFT UI Guidelines.

"Sean McLeod" <seanmcleod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm a bit confused. Our app uses a command bar with images which works on
both PPC2003 and WM5.

Cheers

"The PocketTV Team" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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on Pocket PC 2003 (and earlier) we use a Command Bar (i.e. that control
at the bottom of the screen that contains the menu and some icons. in
the Command Bar, we are able to have tooltips associated with our icons.

on Pocket PC WM5, since the Command Bar cannot contain icons, we place
our icons in another control, similar to the Command Bar, which is in
fact a Toolbar, created with CreateToolbarEx. We place that Toolbar
just above the Command Bar, like in this image:
http://www.handango.com/include/pictures/39039/pro_portrait_320x240.jpg

but apparently tooltips do not work in Toolbars - strangely, using
CommandBar_AddToolTips does not return an error if we use it to add
ToolTips to the Toolbar, but tapping and holding one of the icon on the
Toolbar does not cause the ToolTips to appear.

so my question is: is there a way (using standard controls and MSFT
routines) to make a Toolbar with working tooltips?

or do tooltips only work in old-style Command Bar (i.e. only on Pocket
PC 2003 and earlier)?

tooltips are a useful API element (in fact there is even a
Logo-requirement that Icons controls should have Tooltips, in the MSFT
Logo-certification document). we would like to have them available in
our Toolbar. Is there a hack to resolve this issue?









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