joekraska, The Diablofan site seems to be missing a lot of information.. I was unaware they the where data mining. The database that this application uses has not been data mind, there was no program used to automatically extract data from the game..
The way that tool tips work within all windows applications is triggered after the mouse has been in place of a control bounds for a short period of time called Mouse Hover.
If the Mouse Move is used the processing time will be increased 1000 times because if your if your mouse is at coordinate X 256 and Y 256 if Y is changed to 255 the tool tip is redrawn. This will cause the tool tip to strobe at 60 - 120 HZ and that is not a good thing..
If the Mouse Enter is used the only time that can be retrieved is at the point(in pixels) the mouse enters into the control bounds because this is not your typical text box control the selected item will not be retrieved save thing with the tree view drop down there has to be a way to get the information from the node collection..
Then we are left with Mouse Hover this works ok, it allows us to tie into the collection and retrieve the data set on tool tip text.. The tool tip is then drawn on the screen displaying what we tell it to and works the way a standard tool tip works..
When designing a new control or a new set of controls the way the user will expect the control to work can not be changed because this will confuse the user and a confused user will try not use the control...
The way that tool tips work within all windows applications is triggered after the mouse has been in place of a control bounds for a short period of time called Mouse Hover.
If the Mouse Move is used the processing time will be increased 1000 times because if your if your mouse is at coordinate X 256 and Y 256 if Y is changed to 255 the tool tip is redrawn. This will cause the tool tip to strobe at 60 - 120 HZ and that is not a good thing..
If the Mouse Enter is used the only time that can be retrieved is at the point(in pixels) the mouse enters into the control bounds because this is not your typical text box control the selected item will not be retrieved save thing with the tree view drop down there has to be a way to get the information from the node collection..
Then we are left with Mouse Hover this works ok, it allows us to tie into the collection and retrieve the data set on tool tip text.. The tool tip is then drawn on the screen displaying what we tell it to and works the way a standard tool tip works..
When designing a new control or a new set of controls the way the user will expect the control to work can not be changed because this will confuse the user and a confused user will try not use the control...