ToolTip (Property)

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ToolTip (Property)

In french: Bulle

The ToolTip property gets and sets the text displayed in a tooltip. This tooltip can be associated with:

a control in a window,
a control in a page,
New in SaaS
a control in a report. In this case, the tooltip will only be visible in the report viewer.
Note: This feature is only available from WINDEV Suite SaaS 2025 - Update 3.
For more details, see Using new features exclusive to WINDEV Suite SaaS 2025.

Reminder: To enter the text displayed in the tooltip of a control in the window or page editor:

Open the control description window (select "Description" in the context menu).
On the "Help" tab, in the "Tooltip" area, type the text of the tooltip.
Remarks:
- In a multilingual application, the text of the tooltip can be typed in several languages.

Example

Syntax

Getting the tooltip text Hide the details

<Tooltip text> = <Control used>.ToolTip

<Tooltip text>: Character string

Current text of the tooltip associated with the control.
Note: If the tooltip text is in RTF, the text returned will contain RTF tags.

<Control used>: Control name

Name of the control for which you want to get the tooltip text.

Changing the tooltip text Hide the details

<Control used>.ToolTip = <New tooltip text>

<Control used>: Control name

Name of the control for which you want to change the tooltip text.

<New tooltip text>: Character string

New tooltip text associated with the control. If this text is an empty string (""), no tooltip will be displayed.
This text can contain images and be formatted using the gXXX WLanguage functions.

Remarks

Specific features

The ToolTip property can be used to insert images and colored text into the tooltip via the gXXX functions.