Screen Tips
Actipro Ribbon fully implements screen tips for controls, which are advanced variations of standard tooltips.
They not only display a normal tooltip header but also can contain shortcut keys,
an image, and a longer description explaining more about what the control does or its current state.
The three varieties of screen tips
Screen Tip Variants
Screen tips are displayed in three ways depending on the content that is available.
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If only a label/header is availble, the screen tip will display as a standard tooltip.
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If an image is available (generally representing a thumbnail screenshot of a dialog or preview of the action that takes
place when the control's command is executed), a larger screen tip is used.
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If a description of the control is available it also uses a larger style screen tip, although it will not be as wide as if an image is used.
Note that images and descriptions can both be used in a screen tip at the same time.
Large screen tips display the label/header in bold.
Use Screen Tips on Anything
Yes that's right. Our implementation of screen tips is so flexible that you can even assign them to non-ribbon controls!
Simply assign the appropriate ScreenTipService attached properties to the controls that should have screen tips.
Dynamically Generating Screen Tip Content
Screen tip content can be dynamically generated.
This allows you to modify the screen tip data on demand to best reflect the current state of the control.
Context Sensitive Help
Each screen tip can optionally have a Press F1 for more help label placed in its footer.
You can display context-sensitive help based on the screen tip that is currently displayed when F1 is pressed.
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