How to show a combobox when a mouse hovers over a button

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Hi I have several buttons on my WPF application, where I wish for a ComboBox to be displayed when the Mouse is hovered over the button, and you can then make a selection from the ComboBox. I wish it to be appear in a similar way to a ToolTip, except be a ComboBox, rather than the textbox that a Tooltip is.
I hope this makes sense. I am re-visiting a program that I wrote a while ago, so my C# is very rusty!
Mike

What I have tried:

I have initially enabled the Tooltip

Posted 14-Jun-18 5:26am

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Updated 14-Jun-18 8:22am

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BillWoodruff 14-Jun-18 12:03pm

"I have initially enabled the Tooltip"

what's that got to do with showing a ComboBox ?

what happens when the user clicks the button ? if what happens depends on what the user did in the ComboBox, then it seems to me you are creating a menu.

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Gerry Schmitz · Answer 1 · 2018-06-14T08:23:00

Your "UI model" makes no sense.

The only thing that comes close to your "requirement" is a "context menu"; and even then, it makes no sense.

If you need the button to do "different things", use radio buttons (or something) on the "parent (form)" that "contains" the button to identify what "option" it is to perform when clicked.