>Paul,
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>Why don't you just set ShowToolTips = .t. in your lowest level form class, you do have one of those right?) and it'll solve the problem forever.
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>>Can you add some info to the docs regarding enabling ToolTips (if there is one already, I haven't been able to find it)? This one gets me everytime I start a new project - I can never remember how the heck to turn them on and have to dig through the code to find it.


The framework manually sets it based on the Forms object lShowTips property. It overrides the ShowToolTips property on the form. I haven't bothered to subclass the oApp class yet for a "Company-level" class, but I might just do that instead.