alternative for AcadX ?

[MRL]

Hello,

As everybody knows... acadx is not longer available.
Is there anywhere a VBA-modules/example how to create a program to show
a "tooltip" ?

Martin

 

[RTGIS]

So what happen to acadx....?

I've been away for a while....

 

[Laurie Comerford]

Hi,

You can create a simple tooltip by attaching a hyperlink to an object and
using the description field which displays when you hover the mouse over the
object.

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Regards


Laurie Comerford
www.cadapps.com.au

 

[Tony Tanzillo]

http://www.caddzone.com/acadx

 

[Doug Broad]

Tony,
Really sorry sales didn't work out for you. Thanks for
your regular participation here.

Regards,
Doug

 

[bcoward]

If your not going to use a hyperlink and you want to dent the sheetrock you can roll your own tooltip. My thoughts though are if your asking then you might not want to get into it.

From the raw you would have to use API's such as CreateWindowEx, DestroyWindow, SendMessage, GetWindowLong, and SetWindowLong. This will get you a tooltip interface but you then need to build the ability to look at the properties of entities your cursor is hovering over (more APIs) and gather them into the tooltip text property (I'm speaking from a class object property I use to do this).

As you can see this isn't a 5 minute fix. The cool thing I like about it though is that you have the ability to use a rectangular or bubble tooltip.

Good luck,

Bob Coward
CADS, Inc.