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[quote][i]Originally posted by gbozoki[/i]
[br]Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is a VAX or a VS problem, but when I use the Excel primary interop assemblies to work with Excel from C#, I get tooltips like this in the screenshot:

[img]http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6263/vaxtooltipproblemll6.gif[/img]

The right edge of the tooltip is cut off because it is out of screen bounds.

To reproduce, follow these steps:

[list][*]Make sure Excel 2003 is installed.[/*]
[*]Make sure that the .Net Programmability Support is installed for Excel.[/*][*]Create a new C# project and add references to Excel.[/*]
[*]Add 'using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;' to the class.[/*]
[*]Create a multi-level if structure (anything, just make it long) to reach near the right edge of the screen.[/*]
[*]Inside the innermost if, add the following code:
[code]Excel.Application oExcelApp = new Excel.Application ();
oExcelApp.|[/code][/*]
[/list]

At the last step, if the surrounding if block is deep enough, the code will be close to the right edge of the screen and tooltips for  some of the members in the completion list will be cut off.

This is very annoying - is there anything I can do?

Thanks,
gbozoki
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gbozoki	Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 4:36:39 PM Hi all, I'm not sure if this is a VAX or a VS problem, but when I use the Excel primary interop assemblies to work with Excel from C#, I get tooltips like this in the screenshot: The right edge of the tooltip is cut off because it is out of screen bounds. To reproduce, follow these steps: Make sure Excel 2003 is installed. Make sure that the .Net Programmability Support is installed for Excel. Create a new C# project and add references to Excel. Add 'using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;' to the class. Create a multi-level if structure (anything, just make it long) to reach near the right edge of the screen. Inside the innermost if, add the following code: Excel.Application oExcelApp = new Excel.Application (); oExcelApp.\| At the last step, if the surrounding if block is deep enough, the code will be close to the right edge of the screen and tooltips for some of the members in the completion list will be cut off. This is very annoying - is there anything I can do? Thanks, gbozoki
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support	Posted - Jul 14 2008 : 2:38:22 PM case=3551 is fixed in build 1645
gbozoki	Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 7:39:09 PM feline, Thanks for your reply. I mentioned Excel only because I thought the tooltip is wrong because of the large number of parameters. I normally don't see these kind of tooltips with other components, but Excel and Word has some crazy member functions with tons of params and the code also requires lots of deep if-s to make sure everthing goes fine. Normally I rarely reach beyond column ~80, so the tooltips show up ok.
feline	Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 6:28:39 PM I am seeing the same effect here with String::LastIndexOf(), so this is not specific to MS Office. With VA disabled the IDE places the tooltip on either the right or left hand side of the listbox, depending on how far across the screen you are, so this is a VA bug. case=3551

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