Making SGrid Show a Tooltip of the Contents of a Cell

Summary

Id: 11.12
Type: Issue Issue
Current Status: Resolution Identified

Detail

25 Feb 2003 Open Jeff Hedlund

Do you have any tips on making the Sgrid show a tooltip of the contents of the cell?

9 Nov 2003 Resolution Identified Steve McMahon

Here's some basic code which does it:

Private Sub grdThis_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As Single, y As Single)
Dim xP As Long
Dim yP As Long
Dim lRow As Long
Dim lCol As Long
 
   xP = Me.ScaleX(x, Me.ScaleMode, vbPixels)
   yP = Me.ScaleY(y, Me.ScaleMode, vbPixels)
   If (yP > grdThis.HeaderHeight) Then
      grdThis.CellFromPoint xP, yP, lRow, lCol
      If (lRow > 0) And (lCol > 0) Then
         On Error Resume Next
         grdThis.ToolTipText = grdThis.CellText(lRow, lCol)
         If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
            grdThis.ToolTipText = ""
         Else
            Exit Sub
         End If
      End If
   End If
   grdThis.ToolTipText = ""
   
End Sub
 

The only problem with this is that the tooltip may still display when the user is over the scroll bars. I need to update CellFromPoint to deal with that. I should probably add tooltip functionality to the grid as a whole.