Property Tips
Very often while working with Visual Basic forms or other designers, the need to
find out the value of certain controls' properties appears. Usually this
can be done by opening the Properties window and selecting the corresponding
controls one at a time in order to view their properties. But the Properties window
takes a lot of screen space and it displays the whole list of properties
while you are interested in just a few. The situation becomes more annoying especially
when the design of your Visual Basic forms is of high complexity.
To offer you a quick look over a subset of controls' properties and their values,
the CodeSMART Property Tips tool can be used. This tool lists a preset
group of properties and their values in a special window that is displayed in
a tooltip-like window whenever you hold the mouse cursor over a control in
design mode for a certain (user-defined) time interval.
To enable or disable the Property Tips window:
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Display the CodeSMART Control Panel dialog by selecting the corresponding
entry in the CodeSMART main menu.
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Select the Property Tips node in the CodeSMART Control Panel settings
tree and click the Status entry.
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Check Enable Property Tips if you want to activate this feature or uncheck
this option to disable it.
To manage the properties list:
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Display the CodeSMART Control Panel dialog by selecting the corresponding
entry in the CodeSMART main menu.
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Select the Property Tips node in the CodeSMART Control Panel settings
tree and click the Properties entry. In the displayed list you can see
the properties that are used by the Property Tips.
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If you want to prevent some properties from being shown then you should use
the corresponding check marks in order to disable them.
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By using the Add button you can add additional properties that should
be displayed in the Property Tips window. Use the Remove button to permanently
delete a property from the list. Since the property list can contained a large
number of properties and some of them may not be applicable to the currently
selected control, the Property Tips window displays only the valid ones.
Notes
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You can only remove user-defined properties from the list.
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In the Delay section you can set the delay interval for
the Property Tips window. The value is expressed in milliseconds
and must be in the range 100-500. The default value for
the delay is 250 ms.
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