Cooltips Server 1.0
Final release build 1.00.0001What
happens when you sprinkle a little HTML into those dull tooltips? They become Cooltips!
That's just what you get from Excalibur Software's latest free ActiveX
DLL - the Cooltips server. This DLL allows you to add rich text-enabled tooltips
to any control that provides a hWnd property and a MouseMove
event. (Note: for controls that provide a hWnd, but not a MouseMove, you
always have the option of capturing the control's WM_MOUSEMOVE message and
passing it on to the Cooltips server.)
Complete Feature List
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Cooltips Server 1.0
ActiveX
DLL
Cooltips
Features
- Use the Cooltip class as a tooltip or a popup notification tool -
the Cooltip can hide itself like a normal tooltip, or wait for the user to
click on it before hiding.
- Assign an HTML string to the Caption property of the Cooltip, allowing you
to spice up your tool help with different colors, fonts, and images.
- Use the Cooltip's Animation property to slide or fade in the
Cooltip's appearance, just like Windows 98 and 2000.
- Set the background color for the Cooltip or assign a picture to be
tiled in the background.
- Set the delay time for the Cooltip's appearance.
- Set horizontal and vertical margins to put space between the Cooltip's
borders and the text.
- Support the <br> HTML tag for multiline tooltips.
- New support for the <table> and <a> HTML tags.
Demo Download/Pricing Information
Download comes with documentation in HTMLHelp format. If your system does not
support HTMLHelp, you can:
view the documentation online, or
download the zipped HTML files (25K).
The Cooltips Server from Excalibur Software is completely free. Free
to use, free to distribute with your applications. Warning: There is
one hidden cost involved in using Cooltips. Because the DLL is free, it is also
unsupported. The documentation and sample project is all the support you will
receive from Excalibur Software.
Download Instructions:
-
Cooltips Server 1.0 (VB6 build, 50KB) was built
in VB6 Service Pack 3 and requires the VB6 runtime DLL.
Cooltips - VB6 Source Code Files (18KB) ***
UNSUPPORTED ***
- Extract all included files to a single directory.
- Register ExCooltips.dll. This is generally done using RegSvr32.exe,
which should be in your Windows folder if you have installed Visual Basic.
- You can read the documentation to learn how to use Cooltips, and
there is also a sample project to give an outline of how its
properties, methods, and events work.
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