I am customizing each grid cell's ToolTipText in the grid's InitializeRow() event. The tooltips display properly -- each cell has the desired tooltip text.
However, I want to style the tooltips using the UltraToolTipManager component. So I drop one on the form containing my grid, and set the .DisplayStyle to BalloonTip.
result: No change in the style of my tooltip! It's still the windows default rectangle.
If I set the grid's UltraToolTip properties, I get a nice balloon tip for the whole grid, and sometimes it will display at the same time as the cell tooltip! What I would like to happen is the the cell tooltip assumes the display style of the UltraToolTipManager.
I am using version 2010.1 of the WinForms controls.
Advice appreciated.
Placing a ToolTipManager on the form has no effect on the grid's build-in tooltips. The grid doesn't know about the TooltipManager - the properties of the ToolTipManager only affect the ToolTips of the TooltipManager itself.
You should check out the sample included with NetAdvantage called "ToolTips with Context". There's a sample in both VB and C# and it shows how to use ToolTipmanager to apply different tooltips to different part of a grid, such as different cells.
It installs to a folder which is something like:
...\2010.2\Samples\WinMisc\CS\ToolTipManager\ToolTips with Context CS