"Speech balloon" for help text?

[CW]

For user help I have been providing labels containing suitable text, set
normally to invisible but made visible by the mouse-move event when the
cursor is on the relevant control, then invisible again when the cursor moves
onto the Detail area.

From a practical point of view this works fine but plain boring rectangular
or square boxes are ...well, just plain boring, even with the use of fancy
fonts, coloured text and borders and backgrounds etc.

Is it possible to use something more aesthetically pleasing such as "speech
balloons" or "bubbles", or perhaps circles or ovals - anything would be more
attractive than what I have now.

I wondered about creating a suitable object in Publisher or the like, and
then inserting it onto my form, but thought I would check with the experts
first!

Many thanks
CW

 

[Graham R Seach]

Stephen Lebans has developed code to dynamically create and display custom
tooltips.

http://www.lebans.com/tooltip.htm

Maybe that'd be a solution for you.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia

 

[CW]

Thanks Steve. I'm not sure I have room for placing hyperlinks without
over-cluttering the forms in question, but it's something I may be able to
use in other parts of our mdb, so thanks for the suggestion
CW

 

[CW]

That looks good - many thanks
CW

Stephen Lebans has developed code to dynamically create and display custom
tooltips.

http://www.lebans.com/tooltip.htm

Maybe that'd be a solution for you.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia

 

[Mark Andrews]

I believe codejocksoftware has an activex control to provide various types
of tooltips. I would look at Stephen Lebans first (never used either one).

Mark