>>>>I want to create a tooltip for a textbox in a grid so that whenever mouse is over the text, the full text is displayed in the tooltip(textbox only displays 35 characters but text might be up to 2500 characters). Has anyone had any success doing this?
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>>>If you're using VFP9 will automatically show the tooltip if you have the .ShowTips property on the form set to .T., and the data exceeds the column width. However, if you're using an EditBox for the field, that is not true. If you just show the field as a Memo field (shows "Memo" in the column), VFP will show the complete text as you hover the mouse over it. I've not seen it limit it to 35 characters.
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>>Hi Fred,
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>>I'm currently using an EditBox and also unfortunately VFP8. Do you have more ideas on the problem of showing a tooltip? I think I may want a fancy one too.
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>>Thanks a lot in advance.
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>You posted this saying you were running VFP9 (see above for version). For VFP8, I guess you can use the fancy tool tip code in the downloads here, I've never tried it.

I've tried it in the past and also used Vlad's idea described in the FAQ. I also know about new class (Carlos Aloatti ?), which I presume is for VFP9. I think I'd rather wait a bit till my company purchases VFP9 (I keep my hopes high on this) and concentrate on other requests for now.