>>Can you tell me what problems do you have if the timer fires over the
>>grid?
>sometimes VFP crashes on inkey(0.01) statement with error: Datatype
>mismatch

I'll try to see what cause it.

>I dunno why it happens and just made changes to avoid firing the timer when
>the mouse is over the grid. I enable this control only over header area.
>
>>>property instead of TooltipText property. It is because of limitation of
>>>Tooltip length.
>>Basically, this is exactly what I didn't want to do because I wanted it
>to
>>work without any changes to existing apps/frameworks/classes.
>Yeah, it's a big headache, but it will be very convenient feature to have
>very long tooltips.
>>
>>The ToolTipText is limited to 127 chars in VFP5. Do you need more?
>Yeah, but AFAIR, there was one thread that the VFP has the bug with the
>length of Tooltips. If my memory serves me right, Nick Nekluydov had
>discovered this bug (the length of TooltipText property was really around
>50 chars)

This was in VFP3. In VFP5, the limit is 127.

Vlad