Show multiple tips at the same time help!

[icuurd12b42]

Right so I'm trying to have a bunch of tool tips appear on the screen, mainly to display entry error in input boxes when you hit a button.

func OnOK()

if(GetUserName() = "" ) then ShowTimedTip(ctrl_UserDD,1000,"Input Error", "User name is invalid",$TTI_ERROR)

if(GetDestName() = "" ) then ShowTimedTip(ctrl_DestDD,1000,"Input Error","Destination name is invalid",$TTI_ERROR)

if(GetMessage() = "" ) then ShowTimedTip(ctrl_MsgTB,1000,"Input Error","Please type a message",$TTI_ERROR)

endfunc

The problem is the ToolTip wont allow multiple tips

with GUICtrlSetTip() you CANNOT trigger the tip to show...

I added stub EditBoxes because I can trigger the tip of edit boxes

$_POP_HWND[$_POP_AT] =GUICtrlCreateEdit("",$lx,$ly,0,0)

GUICtrlSetTip($_POP_HWND[$_POP_AT], $message,$title,$icon,1);

_WinAPI_ShowWindow(GUICtrlGetHandle($_POP_HWND[$_POP_AT]),@SW_HIDE)

_GUICtrlEdit_ShowBalloonTip(GUICtrlGetHandle($_POP_HWND[$_POP_AT]), $title,$message,$icon)

However it's useless because this tip TOO can only be a singleton. If I show one tip, it nukes the previous at the other location

Finally I went and tried every example involving _CreateToolTip on the site and absolutely none of them work so I cant tell if I can show more than one. I assume you could if you call _CreateToolTip multiple times, that would create a tip window dedicated to a single control box

this is the result test code

func onclick()

;create stub ctrl, set the tip to it, and show the tip

Global $idstub = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Stub", 50, 150, 120, 22)

Global $hstub = GUICtrlGetHandle($idstub)

Global $hTip = _GUIToolTip_Create($hMainWnd,BitOR($TTS_ALWAYSTIP,$TTS_BALLOON))

_GUIToolTip_AddTool($hTip, $hstub, "Button Two: This is the tooltip for Button2")

_GUIToolTip_SetTitle($hstub,"Title",3)

_GUIToolTip_Activate($hTip)

endfunc

but it's a dud like all the site sample codes I found on the forum. I must be doing something wrong...

Has anyone ever been able to show multiple tool tips at the same time?

I would like a function like

ShowTimedTip($ctrl,$time_ms,$title,$text,$icon)

that would create a non blocking, non replacing tip on screen which would self destruct after the time elapsed. I can handle the timed self destruct but I really need help on getting that darn _GUIToolTip to work.

Edited January 4, 2013 by icuurd12b42

[PhoenixXL]

Autoit is single threaded therefore multilple tooltips cannot be shown asynchrounously

you could try to do this by

• creating a script that would create a temporary script having the tooltip functions
• using the switch /AutoIt3ExecuteScriptFile and execute the file just created

[icuurd12b42]

That's not the reason...

Actually, a tool tip is a window like everything you see in windows, your GUI, your controls.... You can have as many as you want.

In fact AutoIT has 3 tool tip windows active, one for ToolTip(), one for GUICtrlSetTip() and one for _GUICtrlEdit_ShowBalloonTip()

All of those can be up at the same time. A tool tip window can manage many controls or you can have one tip window per control. in this case they could co-exists, just like all 3 pre-canned tool tips can co exist. I proper fix would be to go the _WinApi way to create multiple tool tip windows and control their text and existence individually. There are a few example code on the site but none of them work

Anyway, the worst thing about ToolTip is it goes on top of everything instead of on top the window that called it. Meaning you get nasty messages from an application you are not using while in Word for example and that confuses the user.

See my tooltip replacement

Launching another app is a bad idea. You get UAC window popping or the dreaded "This publisher cannot be verified" message. I can deal with that message launching the app, but not every time I need to pop up a tip to the user.

[BrewManNH]

You should look at the _GUIToolTip functions, you can have as many tooltips as you need, and you can put them anywhere on the screen, color them, change the font, etc.

[AdmiralAlkex]

Launching another app is a bad idea. You get UAC window popping or the dreaded "This publisher cannot be verified" message. I can deal with that message launching the app, but not every time I need to pop up a tip to the user.

Actually you don't need to run as admin just to show a tooltip, so you're doing something weird there. But I agree that launching multiple apps is not good either.

[Xandy]

Can't you just insert data into a editbox or label and just use it as a tip?

[icuurd12b42]

You should look at the _GUIToolTip functions, you can have as many tooltips as you need, and you can put them anywhere on the screen, color them, change the font, etc.

Like the code in the onclick function in the main post? Yeah, that does not work. Any idea why?

Actually you don't need to run as admin just to show a tooltip, so you're doing something weird there. But I agree that launching multiple apps is not good either.

Never said you need to run as admin to show a ToolTip in the gui, just that the idea to bypass the problem via launching an app was not reasonable.

Can't you just insert data into a editbox or label and just use it as a tip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2U8J4fqPg&feature=youtu.be

Yep, I actually had that code too, not working as well as your video though, the label often got clipped, half drawn. Did you have to add extra flags to the label window?

[Xandy]

You should just need to make sure the label has a bounding width and height, the editbox in readonly mode is very nice for extended tooltips.

example:

$control[$controls][0]= guictrlcreateedit($controldata[2], $controldata[3], $controldata[4], $controldata[5], $controldata[6], $WS_VSCROLL)
if $controldata[10]= 1 then guictrlsendmsg($controls][0], $EM_SETREADONLY, 1, 0);read-only

Sorry about the variables, you can make it all out with the help file.

I use $control[$controls][1] to store extended tooltips.

Edited January 9, 2013 by Xandy

[AdmiralAlkex]

Never said you need to run as admin to show a ToolTip in the gui, just that the idea to bypass the problem via launching an app was not reasonable.

Sure you did. If you don't run as admin then you shouldn't see any UAC popup.

[Xandy]

another example:

;create tip control
$tooltipcontrol= guictrlcreateedit("", 5, 5, 200, 80, $WS_VSCROLL)
;somewhere in your loop. detect control mouse over.
$a= guigetcursorinfo($win);$win is your gui handle
if isarray($a) then;check for control under mouse.
    if $a[2]= 1 then
        ;you could include a mouse button down check
        for $i= 0 to $controlmax-1
            if $control[$i][0]= $a[4] then
                guictrlsetdata($tooltipcontrol, $control[$i][1])
                exitloop
            endif
        next
    endif
endif

but you'd have to make sure you can check a list of controls.

and I kind-of threw it together, I hope it can help.

Edited January 9, 2013 by Xandy

[icuurd12b42]

Sure you did. If you don't run as admin then you shouldn't see any UAC popup.

Where? Where did I say you need to run as admin to show a tool tip? Where? Quote me! Are you trying to play with my head here?

another example:

;create tip control
$tooltipcontrol= guictrlcreateedit("", 5, 5, 200, 80, $WS_VSCROLL)
;somewhere in your loop. detect control mouse over.
$a= guigetcursorinfo($win);$win is your gui handle
if isarray($a) then;check for control under mouse.
    if $a[2]= 1 then
;you could include a mouse button down check
        for $i= 0 to $controlmax-1
            if $control[$i][0]= $a[4] then
                guictrlsetdata($tooltipcontrol, $control[$i][1])
                exitloop
            endif
        next
    endif
endif

but you'd have to make sure you can check a list of controls.

and I kind-of threw it together, I hope it can help.

Thanks,