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Customize Windows Explorer Tooltips

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:09 pm
by Little John
Hi all,

I want to do some customization of Windows Explorer tooltips. I already found some information about this topic.
However, I'd like tooltips of plain text files to show the first say 3 lines of the respective file. Is that possible?

Regards, Little John

Re: Customize Windows Explorer Tooltips

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:37 pm
by juror
I would say it's very possible.

There could be a slight delay if you want to read the text file before displaying the tooltip, or could you create the possible tooltips in an array before use?

cheers

Re: Customize Windows Explorer Tooltips

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:41 pm
by luis
@juror

He's talking about making the OS doing that through some possible customization of the registry.

Doing so programmatically in your software is obviously trivial :wink:

Re: Customize Windows Explorer Tooltips

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:11 pm
by Little John
luis wrote:He's talking about making the OS doing that through some possible customization of the registry.
Yep. :-)