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Maybe execute m_wndRibbonBar.EnableKeyTips( FALSE ) after creation of ribbon bar in CMainFrame::OnCreate. Remove this line (or use #ifdef _DEBUG or something else) to re-enable the tips.
Disable key tips in Visual Studio 2019
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David Webber
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How can I disable key tips (I believe they're called) in Visual Studio 2019?
I mean the numbers/letters which appear in little white boxes over the menus and toolbars. They completely obscure the menus which I then can't get to while stepping through with the debugger!
Dave
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points2021-02-09T12:12:16.033+00:00 -
David Webber 136 Reputation points
2021-02-09T12:46:52.583+00:00 Sorry there's a misunderstanding here. I am already controlling the appearance of key tips in my application - exactly like that.
The offending blobs are appearing in Visual Studio, not in my application.
Dave
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points
2021-02-09T13:11:32.933+00:00 I think that these tips are displayed by your MFC application. To continue investigations, try resizing and moving the applications.
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David Webber 136 Reputation points
2021-02-10T23:23:12.91+00:00 Brilliant! Thanks. I feel such an idiot.
My application has a checkbox on the ribbon bar which lets me switch key tips on and off. I don't like them, so mostly they're off. But recently I've had them on.
When I test the command with keyboard shortcut Alt+RightArrow, I press the Alt and the key tips appear. Then the right arrow, and the VS source code window comes up when the break point is reached. But it seems that the key tips are not children of my application because they remain over the VS main frame window when my application is completely obscured by it!
Another reason for keeping the buggers switched off!
Thanks again,
Dave
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,436 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2021-02-09T02:29:28.677+00:00 Hello @David Webber ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Perhaps, you mean this tip(see the following screenshot)?
If yes, I’m afraid it is not available to disable this tip or tips like this. It is designed to remind developers or point the functions(commands) of this button. One of the workarounds is changing to use shortcut keys, as you know,
F11>Step Into,F10>Step Over,Shift + F11>Step Out…(other shortcut keys for Debug) But if you really want to disable this feature, I suggest you directly suggest this feature in Developer Community to Visual Studio Product Team, from Visual Studio > Help > Send Feedback > Suggest a Feature.If you mean other “key tips”, could you please share some screenshots with me to check again?
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David Webber 136 Reputation points
2021-02-09T10:22:57.577+00:00 Thanks TianyuSun but no - yours is a standard tooltip for the command under the mouse cursor. My problem is a similar white box containing just a letter or a couple of digits appearing simultaneously over every menu heading and toolbar item, unrelated to the mouse cursor position.
They look like the 'key tips' which you get free for your application with an MFC ribbon bar, which pop up with the keyboard shortcuts for the ribbon bar commands when you press the Alt key. I'm sure they shouldn't be there in Visual Studio (which has menus and toolbars and not a ribbon).
They only appear sporadically in Visual Studio, and I haven't worked out what causes them, or how to make them go away. When they appear again, I'll try to capture an image.
Dave
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,436 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2021-02-10T06:09:33.107+00:00 Hi @David Webber , thank you for the feedback. I did some tests but I can’t reproduce your issue on my side. If you follow @Viorel ’s suggestion, resize Visual Studio 2019 and your MFC application then move them, will these tips still appear on the top-left of your screen, or will they appear on your MFC application or other places instead of appearing on the top-left of your screen(or Visual Studio 2019)?
Actually, I agree with @Viorel . From the screenshot, the key tips do not seem to correspond to each option in the Visual Studio menu bar, and this issue may be displayed by your application.
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David Webber 136 Reputation points
2021-02-09T10:45:41.69+00:00 Here we are - didn't have to wait long.
Context: I'm debugging a command in my MFC application. The command has keyboard shortcut Alt+LeftArrow. I execute it and VisualStudio breaks at the first breakpoint I've set, with its menu and toolbar as shown. If I then want the menu item "Disable all breakpoints" from VisualStudio's "Debug" menu, I can't see how to get it! And I can't get rid of the white boxes.
Dave