Just happened to see this . . . one way is not to use tooltips, but use BalloonNotes via the class at http://www.ctl32.com.ar/

I use it and love it. Incorporated it into all my control classes. They each have a BalloonNotes property and a BalloonNotes_Access property which is normally RETURN THIS.BALLOONNOTES, but could be changed to some code that accesses a table and returns a value . . .

UPDATE: Oh, now I see that Carlos was participating in this thread and it looks like you got some similar responses . . .

>Great -- thanks, that's what I thought
>
>>Hi Jim,
>>
>>my code snippet is part of my multi language class library which has to handle each type of container individually and therefore, at that time, I decided to break it up into the handled classes like pageframe, grid, optiongroup etc.
>>I stripped the code snippet of irritating code, to give a better view to the way how to access and handle the questioned problem.
>>So ... yes, you can just use the objects()-Array and iterate through it.
>>
>>-Tom
>>