Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rumney" <address@hidden>

> >There is a window class (is that the term?) TOOLTIPS_CLASS which can be
used
> >with CreateWindowEx. I am not an expert on this but there are examples in
> >MSDN.
> >
> >
> That documentation is for the "Common Controls" API, which is a
> constantly changing API, the availability of which depends on which
> version of Windows you have installed, and which other software you have
> installed that might have installed later versions.
>
> As such, I do not beleive that it fits the definition of "anything that
> is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major
> components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on
> which the executable runs", and certainly we cannot redistribute some
> version of it to guarantee minimum functionality above what was included
> in the original release of Windows NT.

Can you please explain more? The only information I can find says that
"minimum operating systems" is "NT 3.51, Windows 95" (that is for TOOLINFO
structure for example) or "Windows 95, NT 3.1" (CreateWindowEx).