Question

The problem is I have a continuous form and there’s a column that the tooltip is not the same for every rows.

For example:

The users are used to refer regions as a number, so I would display to number and I would display the complete name in the tooltip. That way I save space and there’s no scrollbar.

What I did is put an hidden field with the tooltip value then in my current form event I have

txtRegionID.controltipText = hiddenRegionName

As I thought, the tooltip is set to the first value for every rows.

I guess it’s not possible cause a continuous form is like a single form so it’s always the same control and you can’t change it’s properties depending of the records.

Am I right? Is there a way to do this?

Thank you

Answer 1

As you can see in the illustration below, row 3 is selected and row 1 has a hover that shows Tip Three, which is wrong for row 1, but right for row 3. The status bar text shows Tip Three, which is the right tip for the row. The status bar will only show when a row is selected.

Private Sub Form_Current()
    Me.ID.ControlTipText = Me.Tip
    Me.ID.StatusBarText = Me.Tip
End Sub