Displaying tooltip on mouse hover of a text

Question

I want to display a tooltip when the mouse hovers over a link in my custom rich edit control. Consider the following text:

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Answer 1

As there is nothing in this question (but its age) that requires a solution in Windows.Forms, here is a way to do this in WPF in code-behind.

TextBlock tb = new TextBlock();
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("Background indicates packet repeat status:"));
tb.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
tb.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
Run r = new Run("White");
r.Background = Brushes.White;
r.ToolTip = "This word has a White background";
tb.Inlines.Add(r);
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("\t= Identical Packet received at this time."));
tb.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
r = new Run("SkyBlue");
r.ToolTip = "This word has a SkyBlue background";
r.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.SkyBlue);
tb.Inlines.Add(r);
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("\t= Original Packet received at this time."));

myControl.Content = tb;

Answer 2

Just add ToolTip tool from toolbox to the form and add this code in a mousemove event of any control you want to make the tooltip start on its mousemove

private void textBox3_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
      toolTip1.SetToolTip(textBox3,"Tooltip text"); // you can change the first parameter (textbox3) on any control you wanna focus
    }

hope it helps

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Answer 3

You shouldn't use the control private tooltip, but the form one. This example works well:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip toolTip1;

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
        this.toolTip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(this.components);

        MyRitchTextBox myRTB = new MyRitchTextBox();
        this.Controls.Add(myRTB);

        myRTB.Location = new Point(10, 10);
        myRTB.MouseEnter += new EventHandler(myRTB_MouseEnter);
        myRTB.MouseLeave += new EventHandler(myRTB_MouseLeave);
    }


    void myRTB_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MyRitchTextBox rtb = (sender as MyRitchTextBox);
        if (rtb != null)
        {
            this.toolTip1.Show("Hello!!!", rtb);
        }
    }

    void myRTB_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MyRitchTextBox rtb = (sender as MyRitchTextBox);
        if (rtb != null)
        {
            this.toolTip1.Hide(rtb);
        }
    }


    public class MyRitchTextBox : RichTextBox
    {
    }

}