Re: Floating Box for Prices

Mike Williams wrote:
"Larry Serflaten" <serflaten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e2gBPhdZIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I guess I ddin't see it, why did you [Webbiz] abandon the
ToolTip method? Its already supplied by VB, no coding
necessary to implement, responds like other applications
that display similar info, etc...

It's because he wants the floating window to appear under some other
specific condition (not when the mouse "hovers") and to be removed
under some other specific condition and, most importantly, he wants
the floating window to follow the mouse pointer as the user moves it
around. Tooltips don't do that.

Mike

I grant you it is not perfect, but you may be missing that the tooltip will
reposition near the mouse each time you change the text of it, and hide if you
make the text blank. So you can control when it appears, and keep it reasonably
synched with the mouse position. It flickers more than you might like, but as
Larry said, it is an accepted interface for this sort of thing.



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