Hints or Tool Tips in Delphi Application
Hints, we also call Tool Tips are used to show some information related to an action for Users. By default it displays in a separate yellow color window when we move mouse on buttons, menus etc. But we can create our own customized Hint also. So in this blog I will give a brief idea about use of Hints in our Delphi application. We will also check how to customize or create a new Hint as per our requirement. Display Hint for individual Controls In Delphi every run time visible component/control and form has 2 main properties Hint and ShowHint which are used to display Hints. Hint property is Sting type used to set the Hint text. ShowHint is Boolean type used to whether display hint or not. Here I created a form and put some controls on that. And I set Hint and Showhint property for Button at design time. Now at run time we can see the hint when we move mouse on button as follow We can set the same properties for other controls in code als...