A ToolTip is a short string that appears in an enclosing rectangle when the user pauses the mouse pointer over a field-level widget. ToolTips are widely used in Windows applications. For example, ToolTips are often used to provide labels for toolbar buttons, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. ToolTip example


You can assign a ToolTip to any field-level object such as a button, combo box, editor, fill-in field, image, radio set, selection list, slider, text, and toggle box.