Show Long List Entries as a ToolTip

Category:

Forms and Controls

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Waty

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More information:

This code, for the mouse move event of a listbox, will display listbox items as a hovering tooltip when the mouse is over the item.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' #VBIDEUtils#********************************************** ' * Programmer Name : Waty Thierry ' * Web Site : www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/6311/ ' * E-Mail : waty.thierry@usa.net ' * Date : 28/06/99 ' * Time : 12:51 ' ************************************************************ ' * Comments : Show Long List Entries as a ToolTip ' * ' ***************************************************** Option Explicit Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias _ "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _ ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long Private Const LB_ITEMFROMPOINT = &H1A9

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