Max Kipness Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hello - Does anybody know how I can have a multiline tooltip appear just above the systray in the lower right hand corner. I'm working on a small app that I'd like to flash a message there like other apps do, for a few seconds before disappearing. I have all the code right except for how to position. Thanks, Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDod Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 How about this $x = @DesktopWidth - 100 $y = @DesktopHeight - 30 ToolTip("This is a tooltip" & @CRLF & "Line 2", $x, $y) Sleep(2000); Sleep to give tooltip time to display Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time ......T.S. Elliot Suspense is worse than disappointment................Robert Burns God help the man who won't help himself, because no-one else will...........My Grandmother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kipness Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Thanks. The other thing I need to figure out is how to get the message consistently above the the taskbar no matter the height. With your reply and another older post I came up with the following, but it doesn't get the height of the taskbar properly. Is something wrong here? Or is there another way to do this? I was hoping this would have appeared above the XP taskbar. #NoTrayIcon $taskbar = WinGetPos("","Notification Area") ;taskbar x,y,width,height $x = @DesktopWidth - 67 $y = @DesktopHeight - 50 - $taskbar ToolTip("This is a test" & @CR & @CR & @CR, $x, $y) Sleep(3000) ToolTip("" & @CR & @CR & @CR, 0, 0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDod Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 (edited) Thanks. The other thing I need to figure out is how to get the message consistently above the the taskbar no matter the height. With your reply and another older post I came up with the following, but it doesn't get the height of the taskbar properly. Is something wrong here? Or is there another way to do this? I was hoping this would have appeared above the XP taskbar. #NoTrayIcon $taskbar = WinGetPos("","Notification Area") ;taskbar x,y,width,height $x = @DesktopWidth - 67 $y = @DesktopHeight - 50 - $taskbar ToolTip("This is a test" & @CR & @CR & @CR, $x, $y) Sleep(3000) ToolTip("" & @CR & @CR & @CR, 0, 0)Try this #NoTrayIcon $taskbar = WinGetPos("","Notification Area");taskbar x,y,width,height $x = @DesktopWidth - 67 $y = @DesktopHeight - 50 - $taskbar[3] ToolTip("This is a test" & @CR & @CR & @CR, $x, $y) Sleep(3000) Edit Removed unrequired line Edited December 18, 2005 by BigDod Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time ......T.S. Elliot Suspense is worse than disappointment................Robert Burns God help the man who won't help himself, because no-one else will...........My Grandmother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kipness Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 Thanks, that worked perfectly! Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kipness Posted December 24, 2005 Author Share Posted December 24, 2005 One other thing. Does anybody know of a calculation that can use StringLen to figure out the x-axis postion that would place the tooltip against the right side of the screen? Right now I'm just figuring this out manually based on what string I have in the tooltip. I guess the question would be how many pixels is one character. Thanks, Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDod Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 One other thing. Does anybody know of a calculation that can use StringLen to figure out the x-axis postion that would place the tooltip against the right side of the screen? Right now I'm just figuring this out manually based on what string I have in the tooltip.I guess the question would be how many pixels is one character.Thanks,MaxWhat you could do is run your tooltip in a script with a long sleep and use the AutoIt Window Info tool to measure it. You could then build the the measurements into your proper script.Mess but it will work as long as your tooltip is not a variable. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time ......T.S. Elliot Suspense is worse than disappointment................Robert Burns God help the man who won't help himself, because no-one else will...........My Grandmother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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