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cappy2112

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Has anyone implemented a "traditional tooltip"- that is, when the mouse is over a certain control, a tooltip is displayed until the mouse is ,moved off of the control, or the tooltip timer expires.

This would require MouseOver functionality for a control, which I haven't been able to find either.

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hows about

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <Date.au3>


GUICreate("MY GUI")

$Button_1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Select", 10, 50, 50, 20)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Select button")
$Button_2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Exit", 60, 50, 50, 20)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Exit button")
$Label_4 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Mouse over any control", 10, 10, 400, 30)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Label Message")
GUISetState()



While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $Button_1
            MsgBox(64,"Mouse over","this is a mouse over control test")
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Or $msg = $Button_2
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

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Has anyone implemented a "traditional tooltip"- that is, when the mouse is over a certain control, a tooltip is displayed until the mouse is ,moved off of the control, or the tooltip timer expires.

This would require MouseOver functionality for a control, which I haven't been able to find either.

Yes like this...

#include <GuiConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$gui=GuiCreate("Task Drawer", 150, 150, 150, 150, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

GUISetBkColor (0x660000)

$lbl = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Tool tip here", 3, 0, 150, 20, $SS_CENTER, $SS_NOTIFY)

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( $lbl, 0x3399CC)

GUICtrlSetFont ($lbl, 10, 600, "", "Arial Bold")

GUICtrlSetColor ( $lbl, 0x660000)

GUICtrlSetOnEvent($lbl, "Exitit")

GUICtrlSetTip($lbl, "Click here to exit" )

GuiSetState()

While 1

Sleep(10)

WEnd

Func Exitit()

Exit

EndFunc

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hows about

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <Date.au3>
GUICreate("MY GUI")

$Button_1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Select", 10, 50, 50, 20)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Select button")
$Button_2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Exit", 60, 50, 50, 20)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Exit button")
$Label_4 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Mouse over any control", 10, 10, 400, 30)
GUICtrlSetTip( -1, "Label Message")
GUISetState()
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $Button_1
            MsgBox(64,"Mouse over","this is a mouse over control test")
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Or $msg = $Button_2
            Exit
    EndSelect
WEnd

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Great Thanks.

If these APIS were named Tooltip, as they should be, the search through the helpfile woul d have returned something other than ToolTip()

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Yes like this...

#include <GuiConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$gui=GuiCreate("Task Drawer", 150, 150, 150, 150, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

GUISetBkColor (0x660000)

$lbl = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Tool tip here", 3, 0, 150, 20, $SS_CENTER, $SS_NOTIFY)

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( $lbl, 0x3399CC)

GUICtrlSetFont ($lbl, 10, 600, "", "Arial Bold")

GUICtrlSetColor ( $lbl, 0x660000)

GUICtrlSetOnEvent($lbl, "Exitit")

GUICtrlSetTip($lbl, "Click here to exit" )

GuiSetState()

While 1

Sleep(10)

WEnd

Func Exitit()

Exit

EndFunc

thanks

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Sadly, cappy2112's comment about the helpfile is still very much true. I searched for over an hour for this, and it's one simple built-in function! I'd already given up and started work on a "mouse coordinate matrix"! :)

Search the helpfile for "tooltip" and this doesn't appear!

When people are looking for tooptips, believe me, THIS is what they are looking for.

There are LOADS of functions like that. The hours I've wasted!

Can whoever works on the manual please make a note. It's not just AutoIt n00bs who's time is wasted, but those having to support them, and then there's all those potential users wandering off muttering "can't even make a simple bloody tooptip! Useless P.O.S" under their breath....

The manual is good. Very good.

But the indexing sucks, a lot.

GUICtrlSetToolTip( -1, "My ToolTip")

MUCH BETTER!

-mu

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Yup, that's what it is. But there are many examples of this.

For instance, searching for "dns name" or "domain name", even "tcp name" (quotes for illustration, here), eventually you give up and figure that AutoIt simply can't translate names to IP addresses and perhaps begin to write a name resolution function yourself, the pain!

Or wander off muttering "Can't even translate a bloody domain name..." under your breath.

Oh! What's this ...

TCPNameToIP()

Notice that my last search example is two words which are BOTH contained within the function name ('tcp' and 'name'), and yet the result is blank. Isn't there some way to specify that the .chm search return words within bigger words?

Yes, adding "tooltip" to the GUICtrlSetToolTip -

No! Wait a minute, that was My version of the function name, that's what it *should* be! I really meant..

Yes, adding "tooltip" to the GUICtrlSetTip (who named that function!?!?!) page in the help would be good, but tweaking the chm so that it can return partial/fuzzy matches would probably be much more fruitful and productive.

Or perhaps a "keywords" section in each help entry, stuffed with EVERY possible combination of potential search queries.

-mu

ps.. AND, function list at the very top of UDF's please guys! :)

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I need to make a string lower case. So now I'm now searching for..

String Lower

(nothing, okay, what about...)

String case

(nada. hmmm, okay, I'll try...)

Lower case

(FUCK ALL!)

What a pity that AutoIt doesn't have a function to simply convert a string to lower case.

I guess I'd better go and Google for an ASCII table and see if I can cook up some kind of routine to do this conversion. What a nightmare!

-mu

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What a pity that AutoIt doesn't have a function to simply convert a string to lower case.

I guess I'd better go and Google for an ASCII table and see if I can cook up some kind of routine to do this conversion. What a nightmare!

-mu

Bit it does try StringLower

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:(

Too late!

I discovered an old ASCII table, and have written a nice function to do the conversion.

At only 600 lines of code, quite frankly it's a masterpiece, and only took four hours.

No way I'm using your new function just because it's built-in!

And much quicker, too.

:)

-mu

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