tooltip when hovering over a tabular cell

[Laoballer]

I have a form that shows a query result in tabular form. One of the
field is a comment field and it can get lengthy. Is there a way I can
show a tooltip box whenever I hover over that field that displays the
entire content within that field? This way I can keep my tabular
field to a reasonable size.

Thanks

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Rather than try to stuff the contents of a control into a toolbar tip, why
not use the scrolling feature of the textbox control to allow the user to
scroll down/up to see the contents?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[Laoballer]

the comments aren't paragraphs or sentence long, they're just a few
words so scrolling isn't really necessary.

 

[Jeff Boyce]

I'm missing something...

If the comments are only a few words, how is it that the textbox doesn't
have enough room?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[Laoballer]

I'm missing something...

If the comments are only a few words, how is it that the textbox doesn't
have enough room?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

the entire comment is not visible in the field. The comment is in the
field, in order to view the entire comment you have to click the field
and scroll through. for example

my box is this wide

|--------------------------|
"comment is longer then the box"

so when you look at the field you only see

comment is longe

Hope that clarifies some things. What I have done is used the on got
focus event to set the tooltip to the value of the field. This
requires me to click on the field then wait in order for the tooltip
to popup. I would like to be able to hover on a field then have the
comments popup up in it's entirety or click on the field then
highlight it and have the entire comment popup

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Take a look at Access HELP on the Mouse Move event to see that can help.

You might try searching on-line for "mouse-over" to look for what others may
have done.

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

I'm missing something...

If the comments are only a few words, how is it that the textbox doesn't
have enough room?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

the entire comment is not visible in the field. The comment is in the
field, in order to view the entire comment you have to click the field
and scroll through. for example

my box is this wide

|--------------------------|
"comment is longer then the box"

so when you look at the field you only see

comment is longe

Hope that clarifies some things. What I have done is used the on got
focus event to set the tooltip to the value of the field. This
requires me to click on the field then wait in order for the tooltip
to popup. I would like to be able to hover on a field then have the
comments popup up in it's entirety or click on the field then
highlight it and have the entire comment popup