SnippetManager written by Tim Sneath extended with cool tooltip

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Introduction

I like the snippet manager written by Tim Sneath, but when I use it and have a lot of code snippets, I only can see the title of my snippet and can not remember, what is its content. So I added the functionality of a tooltip which provides me the contents. The tooltip is limited to 24 lines.  

Using the code

I only added a simple method to SnippetUI.cs, which receives a control and a message text as arguments and attaches a tooltip to the control.

  /// Attaches a tooltip to a control

  private void CreateToolTipForControl(Control ctl, String msg)
  {
   // split by carridge return

   String[] lines = msg.Split(new char[] {'\u000D'});

   // StringBuilder is faster

   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

   // maximum lines

   int lineCount = lines.Length;   
   if (lineCount > 24)
   {
    // only show 24 lines

    lineCount = 24;
   } 

   for (int i = 0; i < lineCount; i++)
   {
    // tab-character

    char tab = '\u0009';

    // line-feed-character

    char lf = '\u000A';

    // must replace tabs with whitespace to show properly

    String line = lines[i].Replace(tab.ToString(), "    ");

    // must replace line-feeds to show properly

    line = line.Replace(lf.ToString(), "");

    // append String

    sb.Append(line + "\n");
   } 

   // append 3 dots if text exceeds more than 24 lines

   if (lines.Length > lineCount)
   {
    sb.Append("...");
   } 

   // attache tooltip to control

   toolTip1.SetToolTip(ctl, sb.ToString());
  } 

This method is called everytime the toolwindow syncronizes its contents.