I have been meaning to add tooltips to the page headers in the KryptonNavigator for some time. Finally I have had the chance to actually add them.
Here you can see the mouse hovering over a page header and the resulting tooltip popup.
There are a set of properties that allow you to define the mapping of values from the page to the tooltip. This time I have specified that the KryptonPage.ImageLarge, KryptonPage.Text and KryptonPage.TextTooltip properties be used.
There are other properties for turning the use of tooltips on and off as well as defining the delay before the tooltip is shown.
At the moment the actual close/context/next and previous buttons do not themselves have any tooltip. Do you think I should add that as well? Also the headers do not show tooltips. So if you are using the HeaderGroup mode and hover the mouse over the primary header there is no tooltip. Do you think that ability would be useful?
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
The only place I still miss tooltips is with ButtonSpecs.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I think giving the possibility to add Tooltip on as many Krypton Controls possible would be nice (no obligation to use it though for those who don’t want)…
I just don’t know if this is memory consuming (I mean, will it affect the overall performance of the Toolkit to generalize this kind of feature?)
Thanks !
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I think I need to add it on the button specs for the navigator and then go and add it on the button specs that are allowed on the KryptonHeader, KryptonHeaderGroup and KryptonRibbon.