Native Windows Tooltip Support

The statement, WinTooltipCtrl, supports Windows tooltips.

A Windows tooltip is a pop-up text window that provides an operational hint to a user based on the object on which the mouse pointer is focused. As a VTScada developer, you may choose to present the text box-style tooltips to users, or use the balloon-style tooltips (default).

The default behavior is to display balloon-style tooltips for "drawn" objects (for example, an analog input represented as a number on a page), and to display rectangular tooltips for other objects, such as buttons in a tool bar (rectangular tooltips appear for each of the buttons in the tool bar on the Historical Data Viewer page). This behavior can be changed to always display rectangular tooltips by setting the application property "NoBalloonTips" to a non-zero value.

The names of the related application properties start with "Tip" (e.g. TipOn & TipFont). The default (Invalid) for all of these settings results in the default operating system settings being used. Please refer to "Application Properties for Tooltips".

The WindowOptionsstatement allows for setting the text color, background color, and timings associated with all tooltips for a given window. These settings are inheritable, so that Windows that are children of a window that already has these settings modified uses the parent window's settings, unless explicitly overridden by subsequent WindowOptions statements.