firstmagic

When playing games such as City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, etc, I have some scripts to help me do fun stuff (fancy costume change/power combos in CoH, etc). My script pops a little tool tip near the top of the screen that shows me what hotkeys the script is interested in. This no longer works in windows 7, even when the scripts are launched with admin privileges. For that matter, I seem to be unable to capture keystrokes of any kind ... I seem to be limited to purely non-interactive scripts at this point. Is there a new trick I'm unaware of?

I use some autoit scripts in an application that runs in fullscreen mode. I use tooltips to let me know what state the script is in, as well as to list what keys do what (eg. "F1: blah, F2: foo, F3: exit script"). Under windows 2000, the tooltips were 'always on top'. Even when I switched into my 'full screen' application. Under XP and Vista, however, this no longer happens. The tooltips are hidden by the app and I no longer have access to those visual cues. I've searched around but am unable to find a solution to this problem. Any help?