Well, I was wrong.

The ActiveItemChange event does give me the correct item, but unfortunately I need more.

I'm trying to determine the mouse pointer location when hovering over the ActiveItem with respect to the form it's contained in. What I'm attempting is to provide my own balloon style tooltip when the mouse hovers over the GalleryItem.

I tried using the GetUiElement in the GalleryToolActiveItemChange event and then walk up the UIElement parent chain. What I got was:

• PopupGalleryItemUIElement                     {X=4,Y=4,Width=132,Height=55
• PopupGalleryGroupItemAreaUIElement {X=2,Y=2,Width=408,Height=118}
• PopupGalleryGroupUIElement                 {X=2,Y=2,Width=408,Height=118}
• PopupGalleryGroupAreaUIElement         {X=2,Y=2,Width=408,Height=120}
• PopupGalleryMenuItemUIElement           {X=2,Y=2,Width=408,Height=120}
• PopupMenuItemAreaUIElement               {X=2,Y=2,Width=408,Height=120}
• PopupGalleryControlUIElement                {X=0,Y=0,Width=412,Height=124}

Once I got to the last entry above, there was no more parent property set. Obviously this won't give me what I need.

If anyone has a suggestion or solution, I would be most grateful.

Thanks,

JL

Mike,

Thanks for the info. The Cursor.Position seems to be working fine in this case, but this is definitely good information to know. I'm sure I'll find a use for it.

Thanks!

Jim

If you have the item's UIElement, you can ask for it's Control property. The Rect of the element is always in client coordinates of this Control. Then you can just get the Form of the Control and add the Control's location relative to the Form to the element Rect's Location relative to the Control.

Mark,

Thanks for the reply. However, the problem was that I had the item, but couldn't get its position in relation to the form.

After getting your reply, I went back and worked on this some more and was able to position the tooltip using the System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position x and y coordinates.

Jim

Here is the same code in C#, if you prefer that: