Ross Sheppard High School
Computer Programming 20
Student Learning Guide
Adding Tool Tips

	When you have finished this project, you will be able to:
	describe the purpose of Tool Tips
	create tool tips

1. Open the Hello World Program.
   
   
2. Tool tips are the pop-up help items that appear when a user hovers the mouse over an object in a program.
   
   
3. Click the object that you want to create the Tool Tip for - in this case the Display Hello button.

   

4. In the properties box, scroll down to the ToolTipText property.

   

5. In the property window, type the text of the tip - what it is you want the users to see when they hover the mouse over the button. In this case the text is "Click here to display Hello World".

6. Run the program and hover the mouse over the Hello World button - the tool tip will appear.

7. Click here to see the marking guide for this project.
   
   
8. For every project you create, you must use appropriate tool tips.