Display time for the tool MarksTip

Sophie · Post by **Sophie** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:09 pm

When you move the mouse pointer on a point, it will be appreciate to control the display time. In some charts, the mark text contains a lot of information, and the users have to move the pointer on the point 2 or 3 times....

Thanks in advance
Sophie Morissette

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:23 am

Hi Sophie,

Maybe I'm not understanding well what you mean but TMarksTipsTool already has a delay time which can be configured at design-time or at run-time.

If that's not what you need could you please send us an example we can run "as-is" so that we can reproduce the problem here?

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Sophie · Post by **Sophie** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:44 pm

The delay time control the time before the tooltip appear. I want to control how long the tooltip is visible.

I hope it's better explained.... Sorry for my poor english...
Sophie

Narcís · Post by **Narcís** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:05 am

Hi Sophie,

Thanks for your reply.

You cannot control the amount of time a MarksTip Tool will display for.

I've already added your request to our wish-list to be considered for future releases.

Meanwhile, what you can do is create your own Marks Tips using Annotation Tool and use the TeeChart Timer to control how long they appear for.

Post by **David Berneda** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:56 pm

In Delphi (VCL) you can control this using the Application class:

Application.HintHidePause:=8000; // <-- show the tip 8 seconds

I've added a new property to MarksTip tool that links to it.

ChartTool1.HideDelay:=5000; // 5 seconds

The default VCL time amount is 2500 milliseconds.

Note: When changing this delay, you're effectively changing it for all the hints in your app, as MarksTip tool is internally using the same class as the VCL does.