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It seems that the Label has no Hint or ToolTip or Hovertext property. So what is the preferred method to show a hint, tooltip, or hover text when the Label is approached by the mouse?
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Add your tooltip by selecting the Tooltip option on the Marks shelf. Navigate to the dashboard where you want the tooltip and place the visual that you created in this blog post over the appropriate textbox. You should now have a textbox with a tooltip that appears when you hover over it.
In Visual Studio, add a ToolTip component to the form. Select the control that will display the ToolTip, or add it to the form. In the Properties window, set the ToolTip on ToolTip1 value to an appropriate string of text.
In Windows Forms, the ToolTip represents a tiny pop-up box which appears when you place your pointer or cursor on the control and the purpose of this control is it provides a brief description about the control present in the windows form.
A tooltip is a small pop-up window that displays some information when you rollover on a control. In this article, I will discuss how to create and use a Tooltip control in a Windows Forms application using Visual Studio 2010. After that, I will discuss various properties and methods available for the Tooltip control.
You have to add a ToolTip control to your form first. Then you can set the text it should display for other controls.
Here's a screenshot showing the designer after adding a ToolTip control which is named toolTip1:
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yourToolTip = new ToolTip(); //The below are optional, of course, yourToolTip.ToolTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info; yourToolTip.IsBalloon = true; yourToolTip.ShowAlways = true; yourToolTip.SetToolTip(lblYourLabel,"Oooh, you put your mouse over me."); If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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