This patch sets WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW in a tooltip's dwExStyle. Windows does this, at least according to the MSDN documentation. -Ori Pessach Index: tooltips.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/dlls/comctl32/tooltips.c,v retrieving revision 1.40 diff -u -r1.40 tooltips.c --- tooltips.c 2002/01/04 21:27:34 1.40 +++ tooltips.c 2002/02/05 21:37:50 @@ -2114,10 +2114,14 @@ TOOLTIPS_NCCreate (HWND hwnd, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { DWORD dwStyle = GetWindowLongA (hwnd, GWL_STYLE); + DWORD dwExStyle = GetWindowLongA (hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE); dwStyle &= 0x0000FFFF; dwStyle |= (WS_POPUP | WS_BORDER | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS); SetWindowLongA (hwnd, GWL_STYLE, dwStyle); + + dwExStyle |= WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW; + SetWindowLongA (hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, dwExStyle); return TRUE; } _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com