HelpProvider show HelpString on button press

[jpbruckler]

I have a button that would ideally display a help popup string when pressed. I seem to be missing just how I would go about doing that.

I've set the help string on the button, and it fires when the button has focus and a user presses F1. However, I'd like to have the popup text displayed when the button is pushed.

I've also tried setting HelpButton to true on the main form, but there doesn't appear to be a help button.

[jvierra]

Hi jp

Sorry but there is no such setting. The popup help text only shows due to hovering. You can use [msgbox] to display a message box in the buttons click event.
[msgbox]::Show('my message')

[jvierra]

It just hit me that you might be asking how to use code to displaly a 'tooltip' which is what ew call the popup that appears when you hover a control.

Use the tooltip control.

$tooltip1.Show('some help message',$button1)

[davidc]

The Form control has a property named HelpButton which will do what you ask. If you set HelpButton to True and hide the Maximize and Minimize buttons, you will get a question mark button on the top right of the window. When the user presses the question mark, it will change the cursor to a question mark and the user can click on the control to see the help message.

If you want the message to trigger on a hover, then I recommend the ToolTip control instead.

David

[jpbruckler]

David - that answers why I couldn't get the help button to display - thanks for that.

jvierra - guess that would explain why I couldn't find out how to do it The tooltip would accomplish exactly what I was trying to do.