I want to display a web page in my tooltip.

I'm using the following code to try to display the page in the tooltip:
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Top"
Margin="268,195,277.833333333333,0" Width="Auto"
Height="38.5533333333334" x:Name="Button" Content="Button">
<Button.ToolTip>

<Frame Height="250" Width="250" Background="DarkGreen"
Source="http://www.google.com/"/>

</Button.ToolTip>
</Button>

I've tried to put the Frame on dockpanel, or to just use the frame by
itself. Both work outside of the tooltip blocks, but neither work
within the tooltip. The frame shows up because the tootip goes from
the standard color to the DarkGreen; however, the I can't get it to
display the url.

Shouldn't the tooltip allow you to use the full functionality of a
frame if it's going to let you put a frame in it?

Thanks,
Noah

(A special thanks to Doug Stockwell for his help on my earlier ?)

Unfortunately the Frame in this mode isn't a native WPF element, it's
actually hosting internet explorer in it's own HWND sitting over the top of
your WPF application. The tooltip display may well be a layered window in
which I presume HWND hosting doesn't work.

So you may be out of luck in this scenario.

There is a sample component floating around that can convert HTML to a WPF
FlowDocument, but it's far from finished/perfect. If you're interested, I
recall seeing it somewhere on wpf.dotnetfx3.com

- Doug


"Whitey" <NoahSWhite@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159993698.327900.56310@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm using the following code to try to display the page in the tooltip:
> <Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Top"
> Margin="268,195,277.833333333333,0" Width="Auto"
> Height="38.5533333333334" x:Name="Button" Content="Button">
> <Button.ToolTip>
>
> <Frame Height="250" Width="250" Background="DarkGreen"
> Source="http://www.google.com/"/>
>
> </Button.ToolTip>
> </Button>
>
> I've tried to put the Frame on dockpanel, or to just use the frame by
> itself. Both work outside of the tooltip blocks, but neither work
> within the tooltip. The frame shows up because the tootip goes from
> the standard color to the DarkGreen; however, the I can't get it to
> display the url.
>
> Shouldn't the tooltip allow you to use the full functionality of a
> frame if it's going to let you put a frame in it?
>
> Thanks,
> Noah
>
> (A special thanks to Doug Stockwell for his help on my earlier ?)
>

Unfortunately the Frame in this mode isn't a native WPF element, it's
actually hosting internet explorer in it's own HWND sitting over the top of
your WPF application. The tooltip display may well be a layered window in
which I presume HWND hosting doesn't work.

So you may be out of luck in this scenario.

There is a sample component floating around that can convert HTML to a WPF
FlowDocument, but it's far from finished/perfect. If you're interested, I
recall seeing it somewhere on wpf.dotnetfx3.com

- Doug


"Whitey" <NoahSWhite@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159993698.327900.56310@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm using the following code to try to display the page in the tooltip:
> <Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Top"
> Margin="268,195,277.833333333333,0" Width="Auto"
> Height="38.5533333333334" x:Name="Button" Content="Button">
> <Button.ToolTip>
>
> <Frame Height="250" Width="250" Background="DarkGreen"
> Source="http://www.google.com/"/>
>
> </Button.ToolTip>
> </Button>
>
> I've tried to put the Frame on dockpanel, or to just use the frame by
> itself. Both work outside of the tooltip blocks, but neither work
> within the tooltip. The frame shows up because the tootip goes from
> the standard color to the DarkGreen; however, the I can't get it to
> display the url.
>
> Shouldn't the tooltip allow you to use the full functionality of a
> frame if it's going to let you put a frame in it?
>
> Thanks,
> Noah
>
> (A special thanks to Doug Stockwell for his help on my earlier ?)
>