Question

I am looking for some sort of message box that occurs at the cursor. Essentially, when I scroll over a label, I want abit of information to display about that label. Once the cursor moves away from the label, the box dissapears. I can’t seem to make Google understand me so I was hoping you guys could help me out.

Its like when you hover over a link, this white box appears and dissapears once you move your mouse. What is it called?

Sorry for the really simple question.

Answer 1

You might be looking for a tooltip:

A tooltip is a small pop-up window that labels the unlabeled control being pointed to, such as unlabeled toolbar controls or command buttons.

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However, they are usually intended for unlabeled controls. A label usually is for describing another control and as such shouldn’t require a tooltip. In fact, the System.Windows.Forms.Label doesn’t even offer one.