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I’ve got a menu that contains, among other things, some most-recently-used file paths. The paths to these files can be long, so the text sometimes gets clipped like ‘C:\Progra…\foo.txt’
I’d like to pop a tooltip with the full path when the user hovers over the item, but this doesn’t seem possible with the Tooltip class in .NET 2.0.
Am I missing something obvious?
If you are creating your menu items using the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem class you won’t have a ‘ToolTipText’ property.
You should use the System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem class which is new as of .Net Framework 2.0 and DOES include the ‘ToolTipText’ property.
You also have to remember to specify ShowItemToolTips = True on the MenuStrip control