- Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Overview
- Key Features
- Overview
- Design-Time Support
- Menus and Toolbars Overview
- DockingTab Overview
- NavBar Overview
- OutBar Overview
- TopicBar Overview
- RadialMenu Overview
- Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Samples
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Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Task-Based Help
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Menu Tasks
- Adding a Menu Item to MainMenu
- Adding an Icon to a Menu Item
- Adding a Menu Item Before the Current Menu Item
- Adding a Menu Item After the Current Menu Item
- Adding a Standard Menu Item from the Link to Command Designer
- Adding a Submenu
- Adding Multiple SubMenus
- Applying ShortCut Keys to Menus
- Localizing the Text for the Shortcut Key
- Creating a Side Caption for a Command Menu
- Creating a Separate Click Event for a Command Object
- Creating a Window List for an MDI Form
- Deleting Menu Items
- Displaying the Delimiter in Drop-Down Menus
- Displaying ToolTips for Menus and Toolbars
- Hiding Rarely Used Menu Items
- Merging Menu Items
- Modifying the Appearance of the Menus
- Setting the Width of the Image/Checkmarks Bar
- Showing a Dialog Form when a Message Filter is not Installed
- Wrapping Items at the End of the Menu
- ToolBar Tasks
- Context Menu Tasks
- DockingTab Tasks
- NavBar Tasks
- OutBar Tasks
- TopicBar Tasks
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Menu Tasks
Displaying ToolTips for Menus and Toolbars
This topic demonstrates how to customize the ToolTips by creating your own ToolTips for menus and toolbars. Both the menus and toolbars have the property called ToolTipText that provides users the ability to display ToolTips when the user mouses over a menu or a toolbar.
Displaying ToolTips for Menu Items
- Right-click on the top level menu (C1CommandMenu) in the main menu and select Properties from its context menu.
- Select C1CommandMenu1 from the Properties drop-down list and expand the Command node.
- Set the ShowToolTips property to True to enable the text to appear when the user mouses over the menus.
- On the form, select a C1Command menu item that you want to display ToolTips. Set the ShowTextAsToolTip to False so that the command's text will not appear for the selected menu item in the C1CommandMenu when the user mouses over the menus.
- Select the ToolTipText property and enter the information in the textbox that you want to appear when the user mouses over the menu item.
- Save and run your application. Below is what the ToolTipText will look like at run time:
Displaying ToolTips for Buttons on the Toolbar
Select the toolbar button from the C1ToolBar control on your form.
The command link's properties for the C1ToolBar appear in the Properties Toolbox on the right-pane. Locate the C1CommandLinks properties and expand the Command properties.
Set the ShowTextAsToolTip to False.
Select the ToolTipText property and enter the information in the textbox that you want to appear when the user mouses over the toolbar button.
Save and run your application. Here is what the ToolTip text will look like for the toolbar button when you mouse over the volcano:
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Note: If you leave the ShowTextAsToolTip property to its default value, True, then the toolbar button's text will be displayed when the user mouses over the toolbar button rather than the ToolTip's text. Also, delete the information that you entered for the ToolTipText property in the toolbox. The toolbar appears like the following image:
Displaying ToolTips Text for Buttons on the Outbar
You can follow the same procedure listed above to display ToolTips for buttons on the outbar.