ControlTip text, Very long delay before it appeares

[JEFF]

Access 2000 application. Application works OK on an XP system and used to
work OK on my ME system but now it either takes a long time to appear or
doesn't appear at all. I have reinstalled Access 2000 on this system and
also have Access 2002 (XP) and it works slow with that also. Must be some
DLL or Active X thing. Any ideas??

 

[TC]

I imagine the delay time would be set at the operating system level, not by
Access. See if there is anything in the display-related items in Control
Panel to define it.

HTH,
TC

 

[JEFF]

There is nothing there that sets the delay and the delay is fine on other
applications like Outlook.
Jeff

 

[test]

Maybe www.lebans.com would help. I think he has a custom tooltip class with
selectable delays etc.

HTH,
TC

 

[Mr.Smith]

Access 2000 application. Application works OK on an XP system and used to
work OK on my ME system but now it either takes a long time to appear or
doesn't appear at all. I have reinstalled Access 2000 on this system and
also have Access 2002 (XP) and it works slow with that also. Must be some
DLL or Active X thing. Any ideas??

I think you might want to llook outside Access. I've seen this occur on
other apps. In the case I witnessed, this problem occured on one
machine yet did not on an identical box.

Never did figure out why and my app replaced the one with the prob. The
tooltips in my app on the box with the problem in the old app worked
fine. I found very hard to track down the reason why.

Anyway if you do figure out whats going wrong, you might find this code
nifty;

Public Sub sShowToolTip(frm As Form)
On Error GoTo EH

'sets the tool value of a control to its data value

Dim ctl As Control, i As Integer
For Each ctl In frm.Controls
If ctl.ControlType = acTextBox Then _
ctl.ControlTipText = Nz(ctl.Value, "")
Next ctl

Set ctl = Nothing: Set frm = Nothing

EH:
End Sub