Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rumney" <address@hidden>

> I don't think there is a function for popping them up in the system.
> Many armchair critics are not aware of the distinction between
> Microsoft's proprietary C++ GUI toolkit (MFC) and what is available
> directly from the OS APIs, so we often get slated for not using feature
> X, when reimplementing it using the OS APIs is non-trivial.

There is a window class (is that the term?) TOOLTIPS_CLASS which can be used
with CreateWindowEx. I am not an expert on this but there are examples in
MSDN.