status bar

I want to use statusbar to display some infomation when I move my mouse over
any menu or toolbar,how can i do it?
thank you

[Pnq]

at the property mouse move you write (of the toolbar):

statusbar1.text = 'the information you want (it's a string)
but first you have to set the style of the status bar to sbrText. You can do that from the Property Pages.

[Ravi Kiran]

Handling Menu can be achieved only thru subclassing. Take a look at the MSDN article ID : Q185451
It shows a sample of how to display help messages when any menu -item gets focus.

Essentially it involves subclassing and looking for WM_MENUSELECT message. When you get that, determine the active item, and display some message appropriate to it.
I have the code, but is messed up quite a bit, because once i worked on it!!.. so i am not posting.

There may be a couple of samples on Codeguru articles section... check it out

RK

or u can use a label which is what i use. put the code in the MouseMove event of the button

Label1.Caption = "blah"
that will change the caption of the label each time u mouse over it.