New User - Getting Coordinates, ToolTip

[omgaghost]

Hello, I'm a brand new user, so please forgive me, I'm probably making some dumb mistake, I just can't see it.

I want to hit the F12 button and have a tooltip come up telling me the current cursor X, Y & Color.

I've been reading on PixelGetColor, and MouseGetPos, but I can't get what I tried to work, so I've dumbed my script down to be:

Hit F12, have tool tip on screen.  I can't even get that to work!

HotKeySet("{F12}", _coords)

While 1
WEnd



Func _coords()
ToolTip("This is a tooltip")
Sleep(2000) ; Sleep to give tooltip time to display
EndFunc

I'm not sure why this isn't working.  Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Edited May 31, 2015 by omgaghost

[iamtheky]

Here it is for F11.

HotKeySet("{F11}", _coords)

While 1
    sleep(10)
WEnd



Func _coords()
ToolTip("Position X: " & MouseGetPos()[0] & " -- Position Y: " & MouseGetPos()[1] & " -- Color: " & Hex(PixelGetColor(MouseGetPos()[0] , MouseGetPos()[1])) , 0 , 0)
Sleep(2000) ; Sleep to give tooltip time to display
EndFunc

 

 

Help is your friend.

 

The following hotkeys cannot be set:
 

Ctrl+Alt+Delete	It is reserved by Windows
F12	It is also reserved by Windows, according to its API.

Edited May 31, 2015 by boththose

[water]

I suggest to insert a Sleep command into your While loop. Else it will eat up all CPU cycles.

While 1
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

 

[omgaghost]

Thank You!

I seriously never would of found that!  I knew it was some dumb mistake!

I've done a little script writing in AHK, and I've always used F12 with a little script to get cords, So I was pretty set on using F12 again!

I'll just turn it into shift F11, since F11 does something else.

 

Question about the While command with the sleep.  A friend of mine turned me onto AutoIt over AHK, but the while command is new to me.  Why is it necessary? 

 

Thanks Again!

[water]

Because without While/WEnd the script would end immediately.