Hints not displaying for TMainMenu 1

[bobbie100]

I have several forms that use a TMainMenu. I want to display the Hint item for the various menu and (where applicable) submenu items. However none of the hints I set are displayed.

I have buttons on the same forms that correctly display their hints.

I have checked that Application.ShowHint is True and ShowHint for each Form is True.

I am running Delphi 7 on Win XP.

Anybody got any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Bob

 

[Stretchwickster]

I've never seen it done - it's not standard Windows practice. I looked at the TMainMenu component and there is no OnMouseOver event or anything I can see that you could use as a workaround. It might be worth searching for an extended menu component which offers this facility.

Alternatively, create a TToolbar & TToolbarButtons or use a TPanel & TSpeedButtons as these can easily be setup to display hints.

I did a quick google search for 'delphi "main menu" hint' as well and came up with the following page which you might be interested in:

http://tinyurl.com/9jnj3

Hope this helps!

Clive

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[bobbie100]

Clive,

Your reply has been invaluable! I used it to persuade my customer that this really was a BAD idea, even though he had originally insisted that was what he wanted (the customer is always right!).

I had thought it was easy from reading the Delphi help and the fact that Hint was a Published property of TMainMenu.

Many thanks for saving me wasted time and effort.

Bob