Tooltip coordinate position

[MyEarth 9]

When do you create a Tooltip, the x position and the y position are relative to entire screen. Is possible instead to make them relative to the GUI? Like when you create a control

Pratically i want to position a tooltip under a control so if the control is a 10px on y the tooltip is under 10px+height of the control

[jguinch 363]

You can get the control position (relative to the screen) with WinGetpos by using the control handle :

#Include <Array.au3>

Run("calc")
WinWait("[CLASS:CalcFrame]")
Local $hControl = ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:CalcFrame]","", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]")
Local $aPos = WinGetPos($hControl)

_Arraydisplay($aPos)

So you just have to use these coordinates with ToolTip :

Run("calc")
WinWait("[CLASS:CalcFrame]")


For $i = 1 To 10
    Local $hControl = ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:CalcFrame]","", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:" & $i & "]")
    Local $aPos = WinGetPos($hcontrol) ; Left   = $aPos[0] 
                                 ; Top    = $aPos[1]
                                 ; Width  = $aPos[2]
                                 ; Height = $aPos[3]

    ToolTip("tooltip under control", $aPos[0], $aPos[1] + $aPos[3])
    Sleep(500)
Next

Edited November 13, 2014 by jguinch

[Rockerfeller 2]

You might also consider ControlGetPos.

[BrewManNH 989]

Are you creating a tooltip for a GUI you're building or a non-AutoIt GUI?

[MyEarth 9]

An Autoit GUI, if wasn't different i would have written at my first post. I have try some AutoItSetOption but nothing change for ToolTip, the idea of calculate the position is good but is the only one? Searching again i have found an old post of 2006 and is pratically the same idea posted by jguinch:

Edited November 13, 2014 by MyEarth

[jguinch 363]

Did you try GUICtrlSetTip() ?

[BrewManNH 989]

I'm with jguinch on this one, which is why I asked about the GUI above, there's already a command to do what you want to do. Or if you want something fancier there's the GUIToolTip UDF to work with.