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Chris Karcher
Chris Karcher

Reputation: 2292

Showing a tooltip for a MenuItem

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?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 26605

Answers (6)

Thunder
Thunder

Reputation: 10986

On the MenusTrip set "ShowItemToolTips = True" and on the ToolStripMenuItem set your ToolTipText

yourMenuStrip.ShowItemToolTips = true;
yourToolStripMenuItem.ToolTipText = "some txt";

Upvotes: 3

aku
aku

Reputation: 123966

May be that I misunderstood you problem, but why do you need to use the Tooltip class? You can assign your text to the ToolTipText property and it will be shown to the user.

Upvotes: 1

Adrian Clark
Adrian Clark

Reputation: 12489

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

Upvotes: 28

RenniePet
RenniePet

Reputation: 11658

There is an article on CodeProject that implements a derived version of ToolStrip with custom tool tip support. This could be useful in situations where the default tool tip support is not flexible enough. http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/376643/ToolStrip-with-custom-ToolTip

Upvotes: 0

andynil
andynil

Reputation: 29138

Tooltip is set manually by:

testToolStripMenuItem2.ToolTipText = "My tooltip text";

The MenuItem can for example be part of this menu constellation: a menu strip with a menu item and a sub menu item. (This plumbing code is generated automatically for you in the code behind designer file if you use visual studio)

MenuStrip menuStrip1;    
ToolStripMenuItem testToolStripMenuItem; // Menu item on menu bar
menuStrip1.Items.Add(testToolStripMenuItem);

ToolStripMenuItem testToolStripMenuItem2; // Sub menu item
testToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add(testToolStripMenuItem2)

Upvotes: 1

jfs
jfs

Reputation: 16758

Maybe you forgot to associate the tooltip with the control using SetToolTip.

Upvotes: -2

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