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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by ant6n on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:30AM (#38802817)
In Delphi u didn’t need any code to add a tooltip to a component - just add it as a property in the inspector. U can do it in code if you want, but it’s easy to do since u see the available properties in the inspector.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by jcelerier on Friday December 29, 2023 @05:07AM (#38803414)
That's how it works today in Qt Creator too
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by ygra on Friday December 29, 2023 @07:47AM (#38804315)
I guess that was about tooltips for the listbox items, because just a tooltip for a component would be the same with Windows Forms by just setting a property in the properties panel (granted, it's basically an ancient form of attached property that uses a separate tooltip component, but the UI streamlines this.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by qingcharles on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:10AM (#38805742)
It's the same in WinForms, my example was bad as I was trying to do something "unsupported" by the base objects :)
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