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I added a toolbar to my dialog class as described in the F.A.Q. The icons are visible, and the message handlers (implemented in the dialog class) are called, but I don’t see the tooltips.

If I change a toolbar button ID to a global command id (e.g. ID_FILE_NEW), then the tooltip is displayed and the corresponding action is executed.

I call g_CmdManager->UpdateFromToolBar() in the dialog class.

What am I missing to display the tooltips? I have a demo application, but maybe you can answer this directly?

Thanks

If you configured the reference between the dialog window and command manager’s profile, then if you update this profile from the toolbar resource with non-empty tooltip strings, you should see tooltips displayed. The ProfUIS_Controls sample demonstrates toolbars with tooltips in the main dialog window, dialog page with toolbars and dialog page with a status bar where you can insert a toolbar into the status bar’s pane. You can send us a test project that demonstrates what’s wrong so we can help with this.

Thanks a lot both of you for your answers, I have found the problem.

Maybe that’s interesting for other readers so I post it here... analyzing the UpdateFromToolBar() code, I found this segment:

bool CExtCmdItem::TipsLoad()
{

....

int nSep = sText.ReverseFind(’\n’);
    if( nSep < 0 )
    {
        //m_sTipTool = sText; // (- v.2.24)
        m_sTipStatus = sText; // (+ v.2.24)
        return true;
    }
....
}


Well my tooltips, that worked well before moving to prof-uis, were simple strings without the \n separation between status and tooltip text. After I added the \n separator, everything works well!

Thanks
Chris

One solution that will work for sure:

CExtCmdItem * p_cmd;
p_cmd = g_CmdManager->CmdGetPtr( ID_... );
ASSERT( p_cmd != NULL );
p_cmd->m_sTipTool = _T( "ToolTip of command ID_..." );