I'm not aware of anyway to change the margins. You are correct that the user sets the font and colors in Windows Display Settings.


>I noticed VFP 9 has added some additional sys() functions for dealing with tooltips and has expanded the max size of tooltips as well.
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>Does VFP provide any mechanisms that allow a developer to customize some of the tooltip (itemtip, memotip) characteristics such as:
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>- margins used in tooltip popup windows (MS Office has larger margins that make its tooltips easier to read)
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>- fontname and font size of tooltip
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>- background color or background picture of tooltip window
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>If not (I haven't found any hooks yet), from a conceptual standpoint, would it be possible to VFP 9 binddevent() to windows messages associated with VFP's tooltip windows and have our application adjust these tooltip windows on the fly?
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>I assume that VFP uses Windows defaults for some of these settings and that users with sight issues can use the Windows Control Panel to at lease increase the fontsize of all(?) these tip windows? Can anyone confirm?
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>I recognize that a 3rd alternative is that one could build their own tooltip windows and that there are in fact code examples in the downloads.
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>Malcolm