Hi Albert,

It's know bug in VFP 9. Tooltips on grid don¨t works.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3936fe65-b5bf-4d93-8303-0096fade2df0/tooltiptext-in-a-grid?forum=visualfoxprogeneral
https://www.foxite.com/archives/tooltip-in-grid-0000313216.htm
or here MSGID: 1260797

MartinaJ

>Hi all,
>
>Grid has a column that contains about 5 values - all abbreviations known within the company - by those that have been there a while e.g.
>
>EX
>DD
>CF
>O
>
>etc. But while users are in training, they don't know what these mean. I could put a legend somewhere on the form but they wondered if they could just hover over the column and have a mini list show up like:
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>EX - Executed Docs
>DD - Drafted Docs
>etc.
>
>I have never used tooltips a lot but thought I would try it. I populated the tooltips text with the list but it never appears. I read in help that the focus has to be on the control first (the control in the column) so I tabbed into the column. Still nothing.
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>It also said that .ShowTips has to be .T. a the form level. That did not help.
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>I looked through the framework code for this and nothing seems to be blocking this i.e. the tooltiptext is still set correctly as is .ShowTips.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>There are other ways to solve this but thought that the tooltip would work fine for a short bit of text.
>
>Thanks.