Exontrol - Skin Button ActiveX, NET Control

Use the ToolTipText and ToolTipTitle properties to define the button's tooltip. Use the ToolTipDelay and ToolTipPopDelay properties to specify the time in ms that passes before the ToolTip appears. Use the <img> HTML tag to insert icons inside the button's tooltip.

The ToolTipText supports the following HTML tags:

 bold bolds a part of the caption.
 underline specifies that the portion should appear as underlined.
<s> ~~strikeout~~ </s> specifies that the portion should appear as strikeout.
 italic specifies that the portion should appear as italic.
<fgcolor=FF0000> fgcolor </fgcolor> changes the foreground color for a portion.
<bgcolor=FF0000> bgcolor </bgcolor> changes the background color for a portion.
  breaks a line.
<solidline> draws a solid line. If has no effect for a single line caption.
<dotline> draws a dotted line. If has no effect for a single line caption.
<upline> draws the line to the top of the text line
<r> aligns the rest of the text line to the right side. It has no effect if the caption contains a single line.
<img>number[:width]</img> inserts an icon inside the cell's caption. The number indicates the index of the icon being inserted. The width is optional and indicates the width of the icon being inserted. Using the width option you can overwrite multiple icons getting a nice effect. By default, if the width field is missing, the width is 18 pixels.
<img>key[:width]</img> inserts a custom size picture being loaded using the HTMLPicture property. The Key parameter indicates the key of the picture being displayed. The Width parameter indicates a custom size, if you require to stretch the picture, else the original size of the picture is used.
text displays portions of text with a different font and/or different size. For instance, the bit draws the bit text using the Tahoma font, on size 12 pt. If the name of the font is missing, and instead size is present, the current font is used with a different size. For instance, bit displays the bit text using the current font, but with a different size.

In the VB environment, the extended wrapper control that implements properties like Visible, Top, Left, Width, Height ... and so on includes also a property named TooltipText that can provide confusions. In order to avoid confusions on this name, the VB users must call at runtime a code like:

With Button1
    .Object.ToolTipText = "In VB, this is the right way to call the ToolTipText property at runtime."
End With

If the Object property is missing, the code changes the TooltipText property of the VB extended class, instead calling object's property.

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		Type	Description
		String	A string expression that defines the button's tooltip.