MBHINT-Component V1.1
Delphi V1.0 Multiline-Hint-Component by Martin Brtsch

History:
April 20th  1995	Version 1.0
May 8th    1995	Version 1.1	


Introduction:
The MBHINT-Component allows you to create multi-line-hints at design-time. 
I wrote this component, because a few people here over in Switzerland and 
Germany missed the possibility of entering multiline-hints at design-time.


Component-Installation:
The directory should content the following component-files:
- README_U.WRI
- README_G.WRI
- MBHINT.DCU
- MBHINT.DCR

Use the "Install-Component"-command from the Options-Menu and add the 
DCU-file MBHINT.DCU to your VCL.


Component-Usage:
All you have to do is to add the MBHINT-component to your main form. 
After this you can enter multiline-hints like this "Line1@Line2@Line3" 
and so on in the object-inspector. The '@'-char is used as line-separator 
(default). If you want to use another separator, just change the 
separator-property in the object-inspector!
If you want to switch multiline-hints on or off at runtime, 
just use the active-property.


New features V1.1:
The first new feature are individually colored hint-windows. If the 
hint-text of a control contains the ColorCmd-Char (you can change this 
from the default '#' to any in the object-inspector), the hint-window 
becomes the color, that is specified in the tag-property of the control. 
Colored hint text example with 2 lines: '#Hint on a red banner 
with@two lines'.

The second new feature are hint-windows with a fixed width. First you set 
the desired width in the object-inspector at the property FixedWidth, the 
minimal width is 100 pixel. Everytime when you put the FixedCmd-Char (you 
can change this from the default '&' to any in the object-inspector) into 
a hint-text, the hint-window will have a fixed width (specified at the 
FixedWidth-property) and the text will be wrapped to fit in the window.


Important note!:
Don't place the component onto more than the one form. Just put it on 
the main form and you'll have multi-line-hints on all of the 
applications forms.

Comment:
This component is freeware. Copyright by the autor. Please send me a 
short e-mail, if you like and use this component or have some further 
ideas to add. Also, bug reports are welcome!


Have fun!

Martin Brtsch
DIVOR data AG  -  Bremgarten/Switzerland  -  CIS ID: 100430,3660
