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BinarySuperTooltip ^© .NET - An MS Office 2007^© styled, highly customisable Supertooltip component

BinarySuperToolTip .NET will instantly enable your Windows Forms .NET applications with the popular MS Office^© 2007 styled super tooltip component.

The component comes with a built-in custom written UITypeEditor to enable you to configure its extendee control's various extended properties, with just a couple of mouse clicks, without ever having to leave your Windows form's designer view.

Latest production build: version 1.0.257

Product available for purchase as part of our product UIControlSuite .NET package
For more details on pricing, please visit our product pricing page.

What do you get:

Highly customisable component - exposes various properties to fully customise various display aspects

Comprehensive MSDN style documentation

No Run-time royalties! All you need to buy - is just one license per developer!

Technical support and cost-free version upgrades for the initial twelve (12) months

System requirements :

Minimum requirements:-  Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
Supported platforms:-  Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista
Development environments:-  Visual Studio 2005 or higher

Feature highlights:

MS Office 2007 "SuperTooltip" styled appearance, functionality and "more" :

BinarySuperTooltip .NET provides all the "goodies" of Office 2007 Supertooltip component, and additionally provides much more rich UI features via its properties that can let you customise the visual aspects of the various UI elements that makes BinarySuperToolTip .NET.

Rich design-time editing support, Super Tooltip property extensions and extensive properties support :

The component comes with rich design-time support via a custom written UITypeEditor for visually setting the extendee control's extended super tooltip properties, making it absolutely easy for you to work with it.

The design-time features supports full in-place editing to set up all the associciated properties and also to preview the compiled tooltip then and there, without ever having to leave the component's UITypeEditor view.

Simply drag-and-drop the component from your Visual Studio Toolbox into your Windows form's component tray, and do a couple of mouse clicks!
And there you go... the BinarySuperToolTip is all set to do the work for you, instantly!

It also provides super tooltip property extensions for all Windows Forms .NET controls, via its IExtenderProvider interface implementation.

The component supports several properties to make your tooltip display look "amazing" and carry very rich UI aesthetic effect.
These properties make the BinarySuperToolTip deliver more than what you typically can see in Super tooltips in MS Office 2007.

To point out a few of these customisable properties, the list includes customising:

Color, font and string formatting of the Header, tooltip body and the footer text elements

Custom sizing of tooltip window

Background drawing: Being able to choose from the supported drawing styles, viz., the solid or gradient painting, and the choice of colors and orientation (for gradient painting)

Border drawing for the tooltip, and around the footer text area

and much more...

To the left hand side, you can see the few screenshots of the custom written UITypeEditor for the component, that takes you through setting up and customising various properties of the extendee control's extended properties, and as well to be able to preview the so far configured SuperTooltip instance.

Partial or complete owner-draw support :

a) Default rendering: BinarySuperTooltip is rendered using the user set properties, resulting in a MS Office 2007 style SuperToolTip interface

By default, the component renders itself to display similar to the look-and-feel of the MS Office^© 2007 Super Tooltip interface.
To the left hand side, you can see a screenshot of a sample BinarySuperTooltip instance, configured with its various property values, and rendering in a way that looks similar to the MS Office 2007 style super tooltip interface.

b. Owner drawing: BinarySuperTooltip supports partial / complete owner-drawing feature that lets you to provide custom drawing code for drawing the tooltip's Header, footer and/or the body areas.

Apart from the default capability of the component to render the MS Office^© 2007 style super tooltip interface, it also provides full support for an owner-drawing mode.
With the owner-drawing support feature, you can provide your own custom rendering implementation for the tooltip, either completely or partially, by simply subscribing to the various painting events that the component raises!

The component raises several events that you can subscribe to, and handle. These being:

HeaderDraw: This event will let you owner draw the tooltip's Header area of the control, and let the other aspects (the Body and its Footer areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings

BodyDraw: This event will let you owner draw the tooltip's Body area of the control, and let the other aspects (Header and its Footer areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings

FooterDraw: This event will let you owner draw the Footer area of the control, and let the other aspects (Header and its Body areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings.

Note that with these drawing events, you can decide to subscribe to and owner draw a mix-and-match of tooltip's header, footer and body drawing aspects, and then leave the un-subscribed aspects to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings.

To the left hand side, you can see a fully owner-drawn tooltip being rendered.
In this owner-drawing sample, the user has subscribed to owner-draw all the draw-able elements of the tooltip - i.e. its Header, Body and footer areas.

For more details on this, you should refer to full the BinarySuperToolTip owner-drawing sample code project (in C# .NET) that is available as part of the product's install (in both evaluation and retail versions).

AboutToPopup: This event will let you cancel the tooltip, when the toolitp is about to be shown. This event will be particularly handy where you will, at run-time, want to dis-allow the tooltip display for a given extendee control, without having to actually removing the tooltip association for that control.

Pre-defined color schemes :

The component comes with an out-of-the-box, 12 pre-defined color schemes, for drawing the tooltip background and its other related UI elements.

So, when using the predefined-color schemes drawing, all you will need to do is to choose a particular color-scheme of your choice, and then setup the tooltip body text (and optionally its body image, header and footer text), and there you go... your app is instantly enabled with MS Office^© 2007 style Super tooltips in a matter of seconds, all that without having to write a single line of code.

Display at user defined screen location :

The component comes with an out-of-the-box feature to let you (programatically) in just one line of code, display the BinarySuperTooltip instance at a user defined screen location.
This feature is apart from the component's default capability of mouse based tooltip display invocation.


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	BinarySuperTooltip ^© .NET - An MS Office 2007^© styled, highly customisable Supertooltip component
		BinarySuperToolTip .NET will instantly enable your Windows Forms .NET applications with the popular MS Office^© 2007 styled super tooltip component. The component comes with a built-in custom written UITypeEditor to enable you to configure its extendee control's various extended properties, with just a couple of mouse clicks, without ever having to leave your Windows form's designer view. Latest production build: version 1.0.257
	Product available for purchase as part of our product UIControlSuite .NET package For more details on pricing, please visit our product pricing page.	What do you get: Highly customisable component - exposes various properties to fully customise various display aspects Comprehensive MSDN style documentation No Run-time royalties! All you need to buy - is just one license per developer! Technical support and cost-free version upgrades for the initial twelve (12) months
	System requirements : Minimum requirements:- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher Supported platforms:- Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista Development environments:- Visual Studio 2005 or higher
	Feature highlights: MS Office 2007 "SuperTooltip" styled appearance, functionality and "more" :
		BinarySuperTooltip .NET provides all the "goodies" of Office 2007 Supertooltip component, and additionally provides much more rich UI features via its properties that can let you customise the visual aspects of the various UI elements that makes BinarySuperToolTip .NET.
	Rich design-time editing support, Super Tooltip property extensions and extensive properties support :
		The component comes with rich design-time support via a custom written UITypeEditor for visually setting the extendee control's extended super tooltip properties, making it absolutely easy for you to work with it. The design-time features supports full in-place editing to set up all the associciated properties and also to preview the compiled tooltip then and there, without ever having to leave the component's UITypeEditor view. Simply drag-and-drop the component from your Visual Studio Toolbox into your Windows form's component tray, and do a couple of mouse clicks! And there you go... the BinarySuperToolTip is all set to do the work for you, instantly!
		It also provides super tooltip property extensions for all Windows Forms .NET controls, via its IExtenderProvider interface implementation. The component supports several properties to make your tooltip display look "amazing" and carry very rich UI aesthetic effect. These properties make the BinarySuperToolTip deliver more than what you typically can see in Super tooltips in MS Office 2007.
		To point out a few of these customisable properties, the list includes customising: Color, font and string formatting of the Header, tooltip body and the footer text elements Custom sizing of tooltip window Background drawing: Being able to choose from the supported drawing styles, viz., the solid or gradient painting, and the choice of colors and orientation (for gradient painting) Border drawing for the tooltip, and around the footer text area and much more...
		To the left hand side, you can see the few screenshots of the custom written UITypeEditor for the component, that takes you through setting up and customising various properties of the extendee control's extended properties, and as well to be able to preview the so far configured SuperTooltip instance.
	Partial or complete owner-draw support :
	a) Default rendering: BinarySuperTooltip is rendered using the user set properties, resulting in a MS Office 2007 style SuperToolTip interface
		By default, the component renders itself to display similar to the look-and-feel of the MS Office^© 2007 Super Tooltip interface. To the left hand side, you can see a screenshot of a sample BinarySuperTooltip instance, configured with its various property values, and rendering in a way that looks similar to the MS Office 2007 style super tooltip interface.
	b. Owner drawing: BinarySuperTooltip supports partial / complete owner-drawing feature that lets you to provide custom drawing code for drawing the tooltip's Header, footer and/or the body areas.
		Apart from the default capability of the component to render the MS Office^© 2007 style super tooltip interface, it also provides full support for an owner-drawing mode. With the owner-drawing support feature, you can provide your own custom rendering implementation for the tooltip, either completely or partially, by simply subscribing to the various painting events that the component raises! The component raises several events that you can subscribe to, and handle. These being: HeaderDraw: This event will let you owner draw the tooltip's Header area of the control, and let the other aspects (the Body and its Footer areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings BodyDraw: This event will let you owner draw the tooltip's Body area of the control, and let the other aspects (Header and its Footer areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings FooterDraw: This event will let you owner draw the Footer area of the control, and let the other aspects (Header and its Body areas) to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings. Note that with these drawing events, you can decide to subscribe to and owner draw a mix-and-match of tooltip's header, footer and body drawing aspects, and then leave the un-subscribed aspects to be drawn by the component, based on its current property settings. To the left hand side, you can see a fully owner-drawn tooltip being rendered. In this owner-drawing sample, the user has subscribed to owner-draw all the draw-able elements of the tooltip - i.e. its Header, Body and footer areas. For more details on this, you should refer to full the BinarySuperToolTip owner-drawing sample code project (in C# .NET) that is available as part of the product's install (in both evaluation and retail versions). AboutToPopup: This event will let you cancel the tooltip, when the toolitp is about to be shown. This event will be particularly handy where you will, at run-time, want to dis-allow the tooltip display for a given extendee control, without having to actually removing the tooltip association for that control.
	Pre-defined color schemes :
		The component comes with an out-of-the-box, 12 pre-defined color schemes, for drawing the tooltip background and its other related UI elements. So, when using the predefined-color schemes drawing, all you will need to do is to choose a particular color-scheme of your choice, and then setup the tooltip body text (and optionally its body image, header and footer text), and there you go... your app is instantly enabled with MS Office^© 2007 style Super tooltips in a matter of seconds, all that without having to write a single line of code.
	Display at user defined screen location : The component comes with an out-of-the-box feature to let you (programatically) in just one line of code, display the BinarySuperTooltip instance at a user defined screen location. This feature is apart from the component's default capability of mouse based tooltip display invocation.
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