What's the right way to do this?

[haacked]

Hey @jaredpar, I hope you don't mind another VS question. I'm trying to write a stupid silly extension that will show a tool tip wherever the cursor is when you save your document.

Seems pretty simple, eh?

I thought I'd try to leverage the QuickInfo stuff because it provides the right tooltip behavior. But I can't seem to trigger it programmatically on save. Also, it seems intrinsically tied to mouse hover.

Am I going about this totally wrong? Got any suggestions for how I should be doing this?

[jaredpar]

Don't mind at all. Let me take a look.

[jaredpar]

Quick Info is pretty much tied to mouse hover. It sounds like you want the tool tip to display immediately in which case Signature Help is a better option. I created a demo branch that converted your sample to use signature help in place of quick info

https://github.com/Haacked/Encourage/tree/demo-signature-help

I'm in a bit of a time crunch so this was done in a pretty sloppy fashion. Given more time I would have done proper rename of times to SignatureHelp vs. QuickInfo. But as is it serves as a nice demo.

Although I think you may want to consider a text adornment here instead of signature help. Text adornments allow you to just basically throw up a WPF control anywhere on the screen at pretty much any time you want. It seems like this is closer to the experience you want here. This for example is how I draw the block caret in VsVim

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/tree/master/Src/VimWpf/Implementation/BlockCaret

[haacked]

BTW, I want change the license to MIT. May I have your contribution under that license?

[jaredpar]

That's definitely fine.