Hints not working
lazarus / 31-LCL

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jack · 2012-02-19 22:19

I would like to setup the little popup balloons that help the user
with using the GUI.  "Click this button to see this or that". 

Some systems call these tool-tips, I think Lazarus folks call them
hints.

I filled in the hints property of several controls, started the
application and hovered over those controls.  Nothing happened. 
Searching on hints is hopeless, the word appears millions of times in
various contexts.

Are hints like tool-tips?
What do I do to activate them?

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jack · 2012-02-19 22:37

Never Mind,

I found the showHint property and set it to true.

Now it works.

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Pascaluvr · 2012-03-01 07:37

I notice that you can place hints on menu items, but there is no
'ShowHints' properety.

I has going to try putting some icons on the 'spare' menubar space
instead of using an extra line to create a toolbar, but without Hints
this isn't really all that practical.

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Pascaluvr · 2012-04-02 09:16

Quote from: Pascaluvr on March 01, 2012, 08:37:06 amI notice that you
can place hints on menu items, but there is no 'ShowHints' properety.

I has going to try putting some icons on the 'spare' menubar space
instead of using an extra line to create a toolbar, but without Hints
this isn't really all that practical.

I am now going to be shot down in flames by the purists here, but this
is what I do now.

I have an application that uses every bit of screen space available,
so to have a Menubar and a tooltips bar just takes space away from my
display space.  With a toolbar, we need Hints....  so here is what I
do:

1) I remove the Mainmenu.
2) Top line of my Form becomes:
[Button1], SpeedButton1, SpeedButton2... [Button2], SpeedButton,
SpeedButton+1, etc.

Both Buttons and SpeedButtons display hints.

So my Button.Click displays a popup menu of all available options, the
SpeedButtons next to the 'Menu' button just point directly to the most
regularly used selections.