It’s time to add ToolTips to the KryptonRibbon control.
The following image shows a tooltip for a quick access toolbar button. In this case I provided the tooltip text by setting the ToolTipBody property of the button instance.
The application button also shows a tooltip when the mouse hovers over it. Here I have provided strings for the ToolTipBody and the ToolTipTitle properties.
Buttons and labels inside the ribbon groups can have tooltips. Notice that the tooltip is displayed below the bottom of the ribbon client area in order to mimic the Office 2007 ribbon functionality.
For the buttons inside the Include group I have supplied an image by using the ToolTipImage property as well as text using the ToolTipBody and ToolTipTitle text properties.
July 20th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hi Phil,
It’s been a long time since my last drop in your blog ^^
I was just passing by and I congratulate you for all the neat features you’ve been adding to your suite. Hopefully, business is going well also.
I wanted to share with you one thought that I really appreciated in the Office 2007 Ribbon tooltips:
When you have an extended group (or whatever they call it at Microsoft) that shows a simple pin in the lower right corner of a toolbar group, placing the mouse over this pin displays a tooltip with some text and a picture of what dialog you will get by clicking on it.
I don’t know if you placed any OpenDialog or Form feature with your Ribbon groups but if you do, I think it would be a good practice to make an automatic render of the associated form and use it as the picture in a tooltip.
This is very useful for developers with an existing client base changing their application UI to the Ribbon practices. Even if it could feel natural after some usage, I must admit that’s not that easy in the first hours because you’ll look for where the developer put the features…