>to give a bit of user friendly guidance when using a grid form I've created, I'm using the mousemove event to display a wait window on various buttons and the headers of the grid. No problem. (they can switch it off once they've got the hang of the form)
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>I want to provide similar help when the mouse moves over the actual columns.
>I put the code in the column.text1 mousemove events and, you guessed it, nada.
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>I tried the column's own mousemove with the same result.
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>Can it be done?
>If so how?
I find it easier to do this with the ToolTipText property. This is very easy to switch on or off for an entire form.
I see there is no ToolTipText property for Column or Header objects, but you can place it in the contained TextBox.
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