[wix-users] ToolTips not working with Wix Toolset v3.10
Jeffrey Harris
jharris at lexmark.com
Mon Dec 5 10:36:45 PST 2016
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
I created a small sample installer with one dialog and one control with one
ToolTip. The mouseover failed to reveal the ToolTip text in the same way as
the Wix project which has been described here.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Harris <jharris at lexmark.com> wrote:
> I installed and ran Orca for the first time today.
> Here is the Orca dialog:
> *Dialog HCenter Vcenter Width Height
> Attributes Title Control First Control Cancel*
> ConnectionStringDialog 50 50 400 300 7 Program Title serverNameTextbox
> CancelButton
>
> Here are its controls with the tooltip:
> *Dialog Control Type X Y
> Width Height Attribute Text Help*
> ConnectionStringDialog DBPasswordLabel Text 15 159 225 17 65539 Password:
> The password for the SQL server account logging on.|
> ConnectionStringDialog serverNameLabel Text 15 60 225 17 65539 Address: The
> name or network address of the instance of SQL Server to which to connect.
> |
> ConnectionStringDialog DBNameLabel Text 15 93 65 17 65539 Database: The
> name of the database.|
> ConnectionStringDialog dbIDLabel Text 15 126 65 17 65539 User ID: The SQL
> server login account.|
>
> Noticed that the ToolTip text was under the "Help" column and that a
> pipe("|") was appended to the text.
> It looks in order.
> However, this is the first time using Orca so maybe I missed something.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:25 AM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have tooltips for all my custom UI. They work fine. What does Orca
>> say is in the table for your dialog?
>>
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>> John Merryweather Cooper
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jeffrey Harris
>> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 10:25 PM
>> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
>> Subject: [wix-users] ToolTips not working with Wix Toolset v3.10
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>> When mousing over the fields with ToolTip set, no text appears. What is
>> necessary to enable the tooltips to appear? Everything compiles OK and
>> installs OK. Viewed install log with verbose logging and no errors show.
>> Have tried using text as opposed to localized strings. No difference was
>> noticed. Added pipes ("|") as suggested somewhere, but made no difference.
>> Here is a snippet with the ToolTip:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
>> <Fragment>
>> <UI Id="ConnectionStringDialogUI">
>> :
>> :
>> <Dialog Id="ConnectionStringDialog" Width="400" Height="300"
>> Title="!(loc.Title)">
>> <Control Id="header" Type="Bitmap" Text="header" Height="40"
>> Width="400" X="0" Y="0" TabSkip="yes"/>
>> <Control Id="headerText" Type="Text" X="15" Y="5" Width="290"
>> Height="50" Transparent="yes"
>> Text="{\WixUI_Font_Title}!(loc.ConnectionStringDatabase)"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="explanationText" X="20" Y="19" NoWrap="no"
>> RightAligned="no" Transparent="yes" Type="Text" Width="300" Height="100"
>> Text="!(loc.ConnectionStringDescription)"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="serverNameLabel" Type="Text" X="15" Y="60"
>> Height="17"
>> Width="65" Transparent="yes" Text="!(loc.ConnectionStringServer)"
>> ToolTip="!(loc.ConnectionStringServer)"/>
>> <Control Id="serverNameTextbox" Type="Edit" X="15" Y="73"
>> Text="localhost" Height="17" Width="240" Property="SERVERNAMEPROPERTY"
>> Indirect="no"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="DBNameLabel" Type="Text" X="15" Y="93" Height="17"
>> Width="65" Transparent="yes" Text="!(loc.ConnectionStringDatabaseName)"
>> ToolTip="!(loc.ConnectionStringDatabaseTip)"/>
>> <Control Id="DBNameTextbox" Type="Edit" X="15" Y="106"
>> Text="localhost" Height="17" Width="240" Property="DATABASEPROPERTY"
>> Indirect="no"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="dbIDLabel" Type="Text" X="15" Y="126" Height="17"
>> Width="65" Transparent="yes" Text="!(loc.ConnectionStringUserId)"
>> ToolTip="!(loc.ConnectionStringUserIdTip)"/>
>> <Control Id="dbIDTextbox" Type="Edit" X="15" Y="139"
>> Text="localhost" Height="17" Width="240" Property="DBACCOUNTID"
>> Indirect="no"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="DBPasswordLabel" Type="Text" X="15" Y="159"
>> Height="17" Width="65" Transparent="yes"
>> Text="!(loc.ConnectionStringPassword)"
>> ToolTip="!(loc.ConnectionStringPasswordTip)"/>
>> <Control Id="DBPasswordTextbox" Type="Edit" X="15" Y="172"
>> Text="localhost" Height="17" Width="240" Property="DBACCOUNTPASSWORD"
>> Password="yes" Indirect="no"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="lowerLine" Type="Line" X="1" Y="260" Height="3"
>> Width="399"/>
>>
>> <Control Id="BackButton" Type="PushButton"
>> Text="<!(loc.WixUIBack)" Height="17" Width="56" X="190" Y="270"
>> Bitmap="no" Sunken="no">
>> </Dialog>
>>
>> </UI>
>> :
>> :
>> </Fragment>
>> </Wix>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>> Jeff Harris
>>
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