Control the Control Tip Text delay?

[CW]

Is there any way to speed up the displaying of the control tip text once the
cursor has arrived on the control or button or whatever?
There is a delay of a couple of seconds which doesn't sound a lot but I have
seen users move their cursor away straightaway if they don't immediately
grasp what something is for, without giving time for the helptext to appear.
Is this delay controlled somewhere, or is it simply down to machine/mdb
performance?
Thanks
CW

 

[Al Campagna]

CW,
The Control Tip Text display is triggered when the cursor "hovers" over
the control for a short period of time.
As far as I know, there's no way to control that time.

You can however, create your own labels, with helpful user captions, and
trigger the Visible = True on the Mouse Over event of the control. That
will fire right away.

If your user environment is one comprised of untrained users, you might
want to Visible = Yes those help labels on the OnEnter event, and Visible =
No on the OnExit event of your controls.

Or... use the Status Bar to display the messages.
--
hth
Al Campagna
Microsoft Access MVP
http://home.comcast.net/~cccsolutions/index.html

"Find a job that you love... and you'll never work a day in your life."

 

[CW]

Great suggestions, Al. More control over the appearance of labels too,
rather than the plain boring old Tip Text.
Thanks a lot
CW