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| Title | Tooltips colors procedure |
|---|---|
| Author | smurf |
| Submitted by: | smurf |
| Date added: | 2002-03-25 02:20:48 |
| Date modified: | 2002-03-25 02:20:48 |
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This is a procedure that will change the tooltips text and background colors of either a listview, toolbar, treeview, rebar, tab, or trackbar control. Depending on which control tooltip you need to modify, will depend on which notification message you will use when you call/invoke the procedure.
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;// for example purposes the code is setup to change the tooltips colors of
;// a listview.
;// place right below your include section.
ToolTipColors PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD
;// the color macro that allows you to use RGB color settings.
;// place this macro somewhere before your .code section.
RGB macro red,green,blue
xor eax,eax
mov ah,blue
shl eax,8
mov ah,green
mov al,red
endm
;// these constants have yet to be added to Hutch's/Icz windows include file.
;// place these above your .code section.
TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR equ WM_USER + 19
TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR equ WM_USER + 20
;// these constants also have yet to be added. depending on which control
;// your using will depend on which one of the below you will use. the
;// toolbar, rebar, and tab controls you dont need to worry about they have
;// already been added to the windows include file
LVM_GETTOOLTIPS equ LVM_FIRST + 78 ;// listview message
;TBM_GETTOOLTIPS equ WM_USER + 30 ;// trackbar message
;TVM_GETTOOLTIPS equ TV_FIRST + 25 ;// treeview message
;// this line will invoke the ToolTipColors procedure and will need to be
;// changed depending on which control you use.
invoke ToolTipColors,hListView,LVM_GETTOOLTIPS
;// place the procdure below in your code section somewhere.
ToolTipColors proc cHandle:DWORD,nMsg:DWORD
LOCAL hTip:DWORD
invoke SendMessage,cHandle,nMsg,0,0
mov hTip,eax
RGB 255,255,0
invoke SendMessage,hTip,TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR,eax,0
RGB 0,0,255
invoke SendMessage,hTip,TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR,eax,0
invoke SetWindowPos,hTip,HWND_TOPMOST,0,0,0,0,SWP_SHOWWINDOW
ret
ToolTipColors endp
;// a listview.
;// place right below your include section.
ToolTipColors PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD
;// the color macro that allows you to use RGB color settings.
;// place this macro somewhere before your .code section.
RGB macro red,green,blue
xor eax,eax
mov ah,blue
shl eax,8
mov ah,green
mov al,red
endm
;// these constants have yet to be added to Hutch's/Icz windows include file.
;// place these above your .code section.
TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR equ WM_USER + 19
TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR equ WM_USER + 20
;// these constants also have yet to be added. depending on which control
;// your using will depend on which one of the below you will use. the
;// toolbar, rebar, and tab controls you dont need to worry about they have
;// already been added to the windows include file
LVM_GETTOOLTIPS equ LVM_FIRST + 78 ;// listview message
;TBM_GETTOOLTIPS equ WM_USER + 30 ;// trackbar message
;TVM_GETTOOLTIPS equ TV_FIRST + 25 ;// treeview message
;// this line will invoke the ToolTipColors procedure and will need to be
;// changed depending on which control you use.
invoke ToolTipColors,hListView,LVM_GETTOOLTIPS
;// place the procdure below in your code section somewhere.
ToolTipColors proc cHandle:DWORD,nMsg:DWORD
LOCAL hTip:DWORD
invoke SendMessage,cHandle,nMsg,0,0
mov hTip,eax
RGB 255,255,0
invoke SendMessage,hTip,TTM_SETTIPBKCOLOR,eax,0
RGB 0,0,255
invoke SendMessage,hTip,TTM_SETTIPTEXTCOLOR,eax,0
invoke SetWindowPos,hTip,HWND_TOPMOST,0,0,0,0,SWP_SHOWWINDOW
ret
ToolTipColors endp