#5 Tooltips are cropped at screen edge

[Roland Lammel]

We are using remote commands to actually access nodes
behind a gateway node. When PSM is located at the right
edge of the screen and the tooltips are shown, they are
not displayed in full, but rather cropped at the edge
of the screen. The tooltip position should be
calculated depending on the size of the tooltip box, so
the whole box (if it fits to screen) is visible.

To reproduce:
1) Create a session with a remote command (approx. 30
chars)
2) Put PSM to the right edge of your screen
3) Hover of the session and let the tooltip come up

Expected behaviour:
The tooltip is not cropped

[David R]

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I've had a look at this and can't find any way of modifying
the location of the tool tip.

So my suggestions are:
1) Leave it as it is
2) Use the default tooltips on the treeview - this positions
the tooltips correctly - but I lose the ability to set a
delay on the tooltip.

Could you do a checkout from
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/puttysm/branches/fixes/0.2.1.1

And let me know what you think?

Or - let me know if you can find a way of fixing it to keep
the delay and position the tip correctly?

Many thanks
David

[Roland Lammel]

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According to the C# description it should be possible (don't
know if that's possible in .NET 2.0), I came accross this
documenatation.

http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752368.aspx

I'll build the branch later today for testing.

Cheers

+rl

[David R]

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Hi Roland

I think that link refers to WinFX development ( Vista ) and
isn't available in vanilla .NET 2.0

Let me know how you get on with the branch

Regards
David

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Right, the first link was .net 3.0 only. For 2.0 it seems
the only chance to have it drawn as needed is to use the
ownerdraw flag and define an own draw method.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tooltip.ownerdraw.aspx

I tested the branch and it's working fine there, showing the
full tooltip, but as stated immediate, so every mouseover
shows a tooltip.

Although that's not the best in usabilty (as some entries
are hidden beneath the tooltip), I still prefer it this way
for me, as most of my sessions have long remote commands,
but I think that's not the common use case I'm refering too.

So implemeting an own ownerdraw method might be the best way
to resolve the problem (and be far more flexible on the
layout of the tooltip)

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[Roland Lammel]

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The feature may be pushed out until .net 3.0 is available,
as everything is in their already. Just a few months down
the road.

.net 3.0 will als be available for WinXP, as most companies
haven't even picked up on .net 2.0 it might be an option.

Otherwise the ownerdraw method must be used.

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[David R]

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Hi Roland

I have experimented with the ownerdraw feature but still
can't find a way to move the tooltip, so I'm going to leave
this one until .Net 3.0 - unless someone can supply me with
a patch that can make it work.

I think removing the delay in the tooltips will be too
annoying for most people, so I won't implement that change
in the next release.

Sorry about this
David