[powlo]

Hi all,

I was thinking about adding helper text when a user puts their mouse pointer over a control. Is there a way to do this? Control.HasFocus() and its variants don't seem to be what I want.

Paul

[`Black]

Control.HasFocus(id) should work.

[powlo]

It'll work on lists and buttons, but not (as far as I can tell) labels or images.

I don't really understand how focus works, what can have focus, how focus is trasferred etc. I can't find any documentation about this either.

[Hitcher]

Just make a button control the same position and size of the image/label but without any text/textures.

[`Black]

Sure it doesn't work on labels or images. It works only on controls which actually can have focus.

• list, wraplist, fixedlist, panel
  
• group, grouplist
  
• button, togglebutton, spincontrol etc.
  

If you need a label or image to be focusable, use a button instead.

[jmarshall]

As `Black and Hitcher indicate, labels, textboxes, and images don't accept focus. Replacing with a button normally does the trick.

[powlo]

OK thanks for the clarification!