Removing a Tooltips

Question

Dear all,

I have created a tooltips dynamically using the method highlighted below:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb760252(VS.85).aspx

The link above highlighted many ways to create different kind of tooltips.

But it never says how to remove / modify the tooltip itself.

Curretnly, when I wanted to delete a tooltip, I just call:

::DestroyWindow(<the tooltip hwnd created in the CreateWindowEx>);

Question now is, am I doing it correctly? Because there is a TTM_DELTOOL, but I can't really get it to work :(

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Instead of distroying a tooltip, you can just deactive/disable it by sending it a TTM_ACTIVATE message:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb760326(VS.85).aspx 

As regarding to modifying the text of a tooltip, you can code as follows:
 
  SetWindowText (hwndBtn, TEXT("~~New ToolTip text"));
 
For more information please read the following page:

Creating a ToolTip Control
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms926239.aspx 

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