Is there any way to implement the screentips like e.g. in MS Word 2016? There's a help hyperlink in the Word's screentip footer, clicking on that opens a help page.
With a custom control template, I've been able to implement a visible hyperlink in the ribbon's screentip. However, I cannot click on the link, because when I move the mouse cursor out of the screentip's owner element trying to reach the link, the screentip disappears (even if the mouse cursor is over the screentip).
Hi Dmitry,
No I'm sorry... as you saw, the screen tip will close when you move outside of the target ribbon control.
Where do you see that kind of thing in Word if I may ask?
Hi!
Actually, all the screentips in MS Office 2016 support that. Some of them have no additional help reference, but some provide a link that can be activated via mouse click.
Here's a screenshot:
Hi Dmitry,
Thanks for the screenshot. That seems to be newer functionality in Office. We don't have that ability but we do allow you to set the ScreenTipHelpUri attached property. If that is set to a non-null value, the screen tip will show a help icon and text to tell the user to press F1 for help. Then you can handle the ApplicationCommands.Help command in your Window and check the ScreenTipService.CurrentScreenTip property to see if there is a screentip open. If there is, look at its ScreenTipHelpUri property for an indication of which help topic to display.
Hi!
Yes, currently we're using the functionality you described, it works. But we would like to make our app Office-like.
Do you plan to implement this maybe in some future release?
Hello,
We will write down the suggestion. It will have to be prioritized with other work. Unfortunately this wouldn't be an easy update since it would require some fairly large infrastructure changes to our ScreenTipService to delay closing of the screen tips to see if the mouse ends up over one at the end of a timed delay. And then tracking the mouse to see when it exits the screen tip bounds to kick off yet another timer for checking to see if still has left the bounds. All of that would add a lot more complexity to screen tips for such a relatively small end user feature.
Alright, thank you for the feedback!
Well, Microsoft has implemented this for some reason. Maybe they will update their Ribbon guide too, and that feature will become a common one.
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