>Nadya,
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>Why not add the desciptions as a column to the grid (if memo make it sparse). There would be (from the user's point of view) no extra action required to see the description, not a rightclick nor mouse movement to see the tooltip. In addition, Tooltips and rightclicks require that the cell has the focus in a grid. Just browsing through the grid would be enough. (bonus for the programmer: little or no extra work)
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That's not that simple. The grid is constructed on the fly based on the field list, specified for the particular error. The user must see the required fields. Extra columns may distract the user. There could be a situation, when we need to present 3 or more coded fields along with other non-coded fields. You see, that adding extra columns in the grid may become a problem. (BTW, it was my original idea too, but after some thinking I discharged this idea).
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>My colleague has a Validate application. This application has Resolve form with two grids. The grid in the top shows Error number, number of bad records in the file and MustFix or Warning depending on severity.
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>>The grid bellow shows the actual records (some fields, which are defined as show fields for this particular error). We have lots of coded fields in the table. It would be convenient to somehow see the description of them as well.
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>>I discussed this idea with my colleague and she proposed to use RightClick on the cell to show description. I'm not sure I like this idea from user's point of view. I think, it would be good to see descriptions as ToolTipText for each cell (form would have a checkbox allowing to Turn Tooltips on/off). However,
>>1) I'm not sure how to achieve this functionality
>>2) Not sure, if my idea is better than hers.
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>>What do you think and what would be your ideas?
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>>Thanks a lot in advance.