I would like to make a custom formatted Hint for some buttons in my application.
I use to make a tadvtoolpanel and display it on the onmousemove event, but it is not very clean.
Is there a button (from TMS component for example) which enables this directly ?
I just want the user to have a quick resume windows on the mousemove on it.
Hope i manage to explain clearly.
Thanks
Gwenael
Use TAdvOfficeHint from TMS and just drop it on your mainform. All the TMS buttons have an OfficeHint property that lets you specify the title, text and icon of the hint. If no office hint is specified, the normal Hint property is used.
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I have developed an installer with Nsis with a components page in which the user can select the components to install. I would like to change the size of the component list window and make it greater in order to make visible the entire text of each component without scroll bars.
Does anybody know how I can do it? I'm using simple MUI.nsh, not MUI2.nsh.
Any help will be pleasant. Thanks in advance.
Define MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_SMALLDESC or MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_NODESC, if that is not enough you will need to use a custom dialog (ChangeUI)
How can I implement spell check in a WP7 text boxes without using input scope of a text box
You may use the TextChanged event and process the text entered on the TextBox for spelling checks. That would be my approach. But it will slow down your typing and UI mapping. Best method is to use the inputScope and let the device do its work which you do not want. I hope my answer helps you.
After searching for a few days, i thought maby someone can help me.
I'm making a Windows form Application. And on one of my views i have a repeater with a label in there. This label is dynamicly sized. But My DataRepeater item won't adjust to the size of my label.
Has anyone a idea how to fix this?
The datarepeater i use is from the visual basic powerpacks.
If any more Infromation is needed to help me, please let me know.
Regards Stephan
It looks like DataRepeater is very limited with regards to resizing. I found this website that it looks like they got it working, but all of the items resize to the same size.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vbpowerpacks/thread/c93579f2-8b4c-4002-9ce2-152e2dddd10e/
Edit:
This solution is a little bit more complex, but VERY flexible:
You can use a FlowLayoutPanel:
You create an User Control for the item on the list and add a Select Property to the User Control.
You add a list of the User Controls to the FlowLayoutPanel.
When the User Control change size, it automatically adjust everything in the FlowLayoutPanel. (Disable WrapContents to prevent Horizontal Scrolling)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171633.aspx
You can use the following in the UserControl to enable Click on the User Control to select it:
Click event for .Net (Windows Forms) user control
In the form that use the FlowLayoutPanel, you add the Click event, and then apply the Select to only that one User Control.
You can use the SetBoundsControl inside the User Control to set the size of the item.
I want to put help buttons on all my windows, like this:
But when I put the help button in, the minimize/maximize buttons disappear. Does Windows forbid having the min/max buttons together with the help buttons? That would be disappointing because that would mean I could put the help button only on dialogs and not on frames.
If Windows does forbid this, it would be nice to see an official Microsoft document which talks about this policy.
It is not possible through setting windows styles. If you really wanted to you could set some hooks that would probably let you do what you want, but I would not recommend doing that. You can mimic the functionality of the help button by sending the WM_HELP message.
According to MSDN, the styles WS_MAXIMIZEBOX and WS_MINIMIZEBOX can not be combined with WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP.
Although it is true what daalbert says, with some effort it is indeed possible to draw just about anything properly on the window frame. Of course this is in no way "official" and the limitation that daalbert mentions still stands.
You can listen for WM_NCPAINT and draw the button yourself with the help of DrawFrameControl with DFC_BUTTON (which makes sure it will look like the real thing). Use WM_NCHITTEST and friends (WM_NC*BUTTON*) to find out whether the button you draw gets clicked.
So yes, it's technically possible to achieve what you want but usually not worth the extra effort.
Just wanted to have this on record for completeness.
I feel kind of silly asking this question as it seems really simple, but how do I create a text box that I can type in instructions and stuff like that. I don't need the user to be able to change it, it is just to give instructions. I tried the label, but it only allows one line. I need something that can allow about a paragraph or so. Similar to the box in an installer that describes what the program does. What did I miss?
You can use a label but set its AutoSize property to false. This allows you to size the label as you wish and it will automatically wrap the text to fit.
You can also anchor the label to the parent form to have it automatically resize and reflow the text if the user resizes the parent form.
You want a text box, but set its Read Only property to TRUE, and maybe Enabled to FALSE