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emhartner

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On my TDBGrid, I have the dgCellHints option checked and also have ShowHints set to True.  When dgAlwaysShowEditor is not checked, all works as expected.  However, when dgAlwaysShowEditor is checked - no cell hints show.  The OnGetCellHint fires, but the hint is not displayed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Eric

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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2024, 05:50:57 pm »
On my TDBGrid, I have the dgCellHints option checked and also have ShowHints set to True.  When dgAlwaysShowEditor is not checked, all works as expected.  However, when dgAlwaysShowEditor is checked - no cell hints show.  The OnGetCellHint fires, but the hint is not displayed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Eric

Is dgCellHints also included in TDBGrid.Options?
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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2024, 06:38:14 pm »
In grids.pas (in folder lcl of your Lazarus installation) find procedure TCustomGrid.ShowCellHintWindow. Close to its end you'll see
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  1.   if not EditorMode and not (csDesigning in ComponentState) then begin
  2.     Hint := txt;
  3.     //set Application.Hint as well (issue #0026957)
  4.     Application.Hint := GetLongHint(AppHint);
  5.     Application.ActivateHint(APoint, true);
  6.   end else
  7.     HideCellHintWindow;  

Comment out the words "not EditorMode and", and it should work.
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  1.   if {not EditorMode and} not (csDesigning in ComponentState) then begin
  2.     Hint := txt;
  3.   ...

The fact that EditorMode is checked must have a meaning, but I don't know why. It makes me hesitant to commit this change to the repository. Please work with this change for a while and report back whether you noticed any side-effects.

emhartner

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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2024, 09:07:03 pm »
In grids.pas (in folder lcl of your Lazarus installation) find procedure TCustomGrid.ShowCellHintWindow. Close to its end you'll see
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  1.   if not EditorMode and not (csDesigning in ComponentState) then begin
  2.     Hint := txt;
  3.     //set Application.Hint as well (issue #0026957)
  4.     Application.Hint := GetLongHint(AppHint);
  5.     Application.ActivateHint(APoint, true);
  6.   end else
  7.     HideCellHintWindow;  

Comment out the words "not EditorMode and", and it should work.
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  1.   if {not EditorMode and} not (csDesigning in ComponentState) then begin
  2.     Hint := txt;
  3.   ...

The fact that EditorMode is checked must have a meaning, but I don't know why. It makes me hesitant to commit this change to the repository. Please work with this change for a while and report back whether you noticed any side-effects.

Thanks wp!  This did the trick.  As you are saying, it was probably added for a reason.  Anyway, I'll work with this for a bit and report back.  Thanks again.

emhartner

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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2024, 10:22:55 pm »
Just following up with wp to let you know that I've not seen any issues so far with this change.

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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2024, 10:37:35 pm »
The fact that EditorMode is checked must have a meaning, but I don't know why. It makes me hesitant to commit this change to the repository. Please work with this change for a while and report back whether you noticed any side-effects.

Git blame shows commit 30f5f0b0 introduced this, because of issue #35453 .

Bart

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Re: Grid Cell Hints Do Not Show When dgAlwaysShowEditor Option Is Used
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2024, 12:45:55 am »
The fact that EditorMode is checked must have a meaning, but I don't know why. It makes me hesitant to commit this change to the repository. Please work with this change for a while and report back whether you noticed any side-effects.

Git blame shows commit 30f5f0b0 introduced this, because of issue #35453 .

Bart

I don't think so. Take a look at the diff in the link you gave, "not EditorMode" had been there before:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/commit/30f5f0b09d82d765e00bf56658accc223dc1c853#a49ad8c0b361add7a24d0f69ecb81f35f26ce616_4024_4013
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