Article:		An Inside Look at XP SP2
Subject:		Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
Date:		2006-07-08 07:26:04
From:		TSRh
Response to: Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
I did a fix, if you need can get it here: "http://risc.nm.ru/tooltips fix.exe" To run it you also need the VB6 runtime, can be found on microsoft.com Attention: There could be some odd behavior with windows that was already opened while running the fix, so reopening them will help. p.s.: The fix applies HWND_TOPMOST to all windows where "ToolTip" found in it's classname.

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• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-05-08 12:34:45  kangfucius [View]
  
  
  Here's a version in C#:
  
  
  // Program: TopmostToolTips
  // Bring tooltip windows to the front (top most) - workaround for the Windows bug
  // that causes tooltips to be hidden behind the Windows taskbar
  //
  // Copyright (C) kangfucius, 2007
  //
  using System;
  using System.Diagnostics;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
  
  public delegate bool CallBackPtr(int hWnd, uint lParam);
  
  // TopmostToolTips
  //
  namespace TTT
  {
  class Program
  {
  // Win32 constants
  private const Int32 HWND_TOPMOST = -1;
  private const uint SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;
  private const uint SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002;
  
  private static string CLASS_FILTER = "tooltips_class32";
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int EnumWindows(CallBackPtr callPtr, uint lParam);
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int GetClassName(int hWnd, StringBuilder className, int nMaxCount);
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int SetWindowPos(int hWnd, int hWnndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, uint uFlags);
  
  public static bool TopmostToolTips(int hWnd, uint lParam)
  {
  StringBuilder sbClassName = new StringBuilder(256);
  GetClassName(hWnd, sbClassName, sbClassName.Capacity);
  
  Debug.WriteLine("hWnd=" + hWnd + " class=" + sbClassName.ToString());
  if (CLASS_FILTER.Equals(sbClassName.ToString()))
  {
  SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);
  }
  
  return true;
  }
  
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("TTT - set Tool Tip windows in Top-most position");
  Console.WriteLine("Copyright kangfucius 2007. All rights reserved");
  CallBackPtr callback = new CallBackPtr(Program.TopmostToolTips);
  Program.EnumWindows(callback, 0);
  
  //Console.ReadKey(true);
  }
  }
  }