Tool Tip Tasks

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Use tool tips to help users identify the purpose of a toolbar button or other control.

What do you want to do?

Window Is Derived from CFrameWnd: Including Toolbars

• Activate tool tips for controls in a window derived from CFrameWnd
  
  
• Enable fly by status-bar updates

Window Not Derived from CFrameWnd: Form Views and Dialog Boxes

• Enable tool tips for controls in a window not derived from CFrameWnd
  
  
• Learn when I need to handle the TTN_NEEDTEXT message
  
  
• Enable tool tips for child controls in a form view or dialog box
  
  
• Handle the TTN_NEEDTEXT message
  
  
• Learn about the TOOLTIPTEXT structure
  
  
• Learn how to specify the string to be displayed in a tool tip