Question

I would like to create infobox functionality in AutoCAD. Same as you hover some feature in Google Earth, it shows you infobox with picture.

Something like this

I was thinking about using palette, but I’m not sure how to adjust it to looks like infobox.

I’m planning to create .NEt plugin.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

**Well, I found I think the best approach, using AutoCAD tooltip. Here is the code snippet:

Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.ToolTipOpened +=
            (s, e) =>
            {       
                Autodesk.Internal.Windows.ToolTip tooltip =
                s as Autodesk.Internal.Windows.ToolTip;
                if (tooltip != null)
                {                     
                        var image = new System.Windows.Controls.Image();
                        var bitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
                        bitmapImage.BeginInit();
                        bitmapImage.UriSource = new Uri(@"C:/index.jpeg");
                        bitmapImage.EndInit();
                        image.Source = bitmapImage;
                        tooltip.Height = image.Height;
                        tooltip.Width = image.Width;
                        tooltip.Content = image;
                }
            };

It looks fine to me now. :)**

As I said in comment below here is the screen shot of this solution

As you can maybe note, tooltip is not positioned near geometry, I selected the pink one. That is my last problem. My flow is that when I select object, I got win form listBox that offers me several image files connected to this entity. When I choose one, it opens tootltip, but it seems relatively to listbox dialog. I was not able to find solution how to manually set tooltip position. Any suggestions?