A User Drawn Advanced Tip allows the developer to take over complete control of the Advanced tip presentation in the control.
The User Drawn Advanced Tip event fires before an Advanced tip is displayed by the control. The event passes an e argument that contains the following custom properties …
· e.Font (of type Font): The Font the current tooltip dimensions were calculated with.
· e.Graphics (of type System.Drawing.Graphics): A handle to the graphics object responsible for drawing the control. Through the e.Graphics object the developer has access to the GDI+ methods for drawing objects to a display device.
· e.PaintTip (of type Boolean): Determines if the internal routines of the control should draw the advanced tip. When the PaintTip property is set to False the control does not execute its internal paint routine and the developer has control over the painting of the tooltip.
· e.Rect (of type System.Drawing.Rectangle): A rectangle representing the area being painted in the control. The rectangle is defined by an X,Y coordinate (top left of rectangle) and a width and height of the area being painted. All values are in pixels.
· e.Text (of type String): The text tof the current tooltip.