If you need it more dynamic, you could use the mouseover event to set this.tooltiptext
This would be evaluated each time you moved over the control.,
>Hi Paul,
>
>I am assuming that the form property that you've assigned the tooltiptext value is "MyToolTipText" and it contains the tip you want displayed
>
>*-- Form object
>THISFORM.ShowTips = .T.
>THISFORM.MyToolTipText = "This is my Tip of the Day"
>
>*-- Command.Init
>THIS.ToolTipText = THISFORM.MyToolTipText