Mouse Scroll Wheel Click on shape shows tool tip in box

[Henke]

We utilize the tool tips/Screen tips on many shapes in our drawings.
By hovering on the shape we show important information related to the shape as a tool tip.
By accident I clicked, with the trackpad, on a shape and got the tool tip in a separate yellow box in top left corner.
Never seen that before.

This could later be explained and reproduced as a Mouse scroll wheel click (with a real mouse) on a shape, this displays the box.
(See attachment)

But I have never seen any info on that feature.
I tried to google it too, but can't find anything about it. Guess I'm using the wrong keywords to find it.
Can someone please direct me to a source of Visio information that describes this behavior?
What versions of Visio does this work on, what are the limitations (time), can the box  be placed in another position than top left corner?, etc.'

Thanks!

[Visio Guy]

Wow, interesting! I've never seen that before. I couldn't get it to happen in either Visio 2016, nor 2010.

I wonder if it related to accessibility features, or some other Windows setting?

[Henke]

I just tested on a standard blank drawing.
1. Added a basic box shape
2. Added Screen tip/tool tip to the shape with some text
3. Clicked on the shape with the mouse wheel and it comes up.

I have done this on three different machines.
Win 7  Pro 32/64bit Visio 2016
Win 10 Pro 32 bit, Visio 2010

No accessibility stuff added

[Paul Herber]

I can't get this to work with a mouse with scroll wheel. All I get is the screen pan cursor and the whole visible Visio area can be panned left/right/up/down.

[Henke]

I made a Screen cast how it looks for me, I apologize for the Swedish language version of Visio.
https://www.screencast.com/t/NBdypv2vDly

[Paul Herber]

I made a Screen cast how it looks for me, I apologize for the Swedish language version of Visio.
https://www.screencast.com/t/NBdypv2vDly

Requires Adobe Flash.
Not installed on any machine here.

[JuneTheSecond]

3. Clicked on the shape with the mouse wheel and it comes up.

This does not work in my Visio 2016 for office 365 at all.
My Visio has an option dialog to change the view of the screentips, but this option does not work.
Here is a document about enhanced screentips for Office, however it seems not for Visio.
The enhanced screentip in this document looks like that as you mentioned.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Show-or-hide-ScreenTips-72d92d6a-6d2a-40fd-9ac2-fb9413ffce18

[Henke]

Thanks for your Replies @Paul Herber and @Junethesecond!

The thing you @JuneTheSecond describes seems to only relate to the ribbon/buttons in Visio and not the Shapes in Visio.

I don't think I've made any special settings in Visio when I create the standard drawing with basic shapes.
My Windows 7/10 are standard professional versions without any accessibility options/screen reader, etc enabled.
So it's a bit strange to me that I have a feature and you haven't.
Also that I have it on different machines (Windows 7 and 10) and different versions of Visio (Visio 2010 and Visio 2016).

[Henke]

I just tested with a new blank plan from a freshly restarted Visio and I don't get that behavior.
It seems the function was part of a previously opened drawing with macros that has this feature.
By closing that customized file and opening a new blank drawing the behavior also applied to the newly opened drawing.

So this is not a standard Visio behavior after all.
I'm sorry I didn't investigate more thoroughly before writing the question.

Regards,
Henke