Showing a tooltip for a MenuItem

Question

I've got a menu that contains, among other things, some most-recently-used file paths. The paths to these files can be long, so the text sometimes gets clipped like "C:\Progra...\foo.txt"

I'd like to pop a tooltip with the full path when the user hovers over the item, but this doesn't seem possible with the Tooltip class in .NET 2.0.

Am I missing something obvious?

Answer 1

If you are creating your menu items using the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem class you won't have a "ToolTipText" property.

You should use the System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem class which is new as of .Net Framework 2.0 and DOES include the "ToolTipText" property.

You also have to remember to specify ShowItemToolTips = True on the MenuStrip control