ToolTipsFactory .NET 1.2
he ToolTipsFactory is a set of components designed to add visually sophisticated ToolTips to Windows Forms applications. These components enable application developers to add really dynamic tooltips to their applications, with single- or multiline text, images and even animations as content, providing full control over all tooltip layout elements like font, size, border, background etc. The ToolTipsFactory lets you equip your applications with tooltips capable to provide really meaningfull information to the user in an unobtrusive way.
The four main components of the ToolTipsFactory can literaly be viewed as four independent assembly lines in a Factory. Each of this assembly lines is able to produce different products. As a car factory, with assembly lines for different types of cars (van's, trucks, sedan's), the ToolTipsFactory has different assemly lines which can be added to your applications. In there they can start to produce different types of ToolTips, and - as in modern car manufacturing - each ToolTip that leaves the assembly line may has it's own look and options.
ToolTipsFactorySingleLine: This component adds a ToolTip to all controls on a form to show one single line of text. Optionally it can display an image or movie on either the left or the right side of the text.
ToolTipsFactoryMultiLine: This component enables the controls on a form to show multiple lines of text in a ToolTip. The number of lines is only limited by the size of the selected font and the vertical screen resolution.
ToolTipsFactoryImage: With this component it is possible to show any kind of image in the tooltip. The images can be assigned at design-time, loaded or dynamically created at run-time by the application.
ToolTipsFactoryAnimation: This component gives your application the capability to pop up fully animated ToolTips. The the movie-clip can be assigned and edited at design-time or it can be loaded or generated dynamically by the application.