Scrolling Traytip/tooltip Helper

[lte5000]

Update: Added checking if BalloonTips are enabled. Thanks piccaso!

I wrote this function in one of my scripts, and I decided to post it here, in case anyone's interested.

What it does is automatically choose whether to display a ToolTip or TrayTip depending on your OS (TrayTip on 2000/XP, ToolTip on 9x/NT). It also has the ability to scroll in the 'Tip from left to right. It does NOT accept location parameters.

The function should be called as such to display a scrolling ToolTip/TrayTip:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Tip("AutoIt", "I am a scrolling 'Tip...", 1, 20)
Sleep(2500)

The third parameter turns scrolling on or off. ( 1=ON, anything else = OFF)

The last parameter controls the scrolling speed, BIGGER number = SLOWER speed SMALLER number = FASTER speed.

Or like this to display a non-scrolling tip:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Tip("AutoIt", "I am NOT a scrolling 'Tip...", "", "")
Sleep(2500)

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Func Tip($header, $message, $scrolling, $speed)
        Local $header, $message, $scrolling, $parseTray, $scrollTray, $parseTool, $scrollTool, $i, $winSizes, $y, $trayEnable
        $trayEnable = RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced", "EnableBalloonTips")
        If @error = -1 Or $trayEnable And @OSTYPE = "WIN32_NT" And @OSVersion <> "WIN_NT4" Then
               ;Non - scrolling TrayTips.
                If Not $scrolling Then
                        TrayTip($header, $message, 30, 1)
                Else
                       ;Scrolling TrayTips.
                        $parseTray = StringSplit($message, "")
                        Do
                                $i = $i + 1
                                $scrollTray = $scrollTray & $parseTray[$i]
                                TrayTip($header, $scrollTray, 30, 1)
                                Sleep($speed)
                        Until $i = $parseTray[0]
                EndIf
        Else
                $winSizes = WinGetClientSize("classname=Shell_TrayWnd")
                $y = @DesktopHeight - $winSizes[1] - 35
               ;Make the title line-up better on tooltips.
                Select
                        Case StringLen($message) - StringLen($header) > 30
                                $header = @TAB & @TAB & $header
                        Case StringLen($message) - StringLen($header) > 20
                                $header = @TAB & $header
                EndSelect
               ;Non - scrolling ToolTips.
                If Not $scrolling Then
                        ToolTip($header & @LF & $message, @DesktopWidth - (StringLen($message) * 4.5) - 100, $y)
                Else
                       ;Scrolling ToolTips.    
                        $parseTool = StringSplit($message, "")
                        Do
                                $i = $i + 1
                                $scrollTool= ($scrollTool & $parseTool[$i])
                                ToolTip($header & @LF & $scrollTool, @DesktopWidth - (StringLen($message) * 4.5) - 100, $y)
                                Sleep($speed)
                        Until $i = $parseTool[0]
                EndIf
        EndIf
EndFunc  ;==>Tip

Edited May 29, 2004 by lte5000

[Valik]

Passing anything > 1 to the 3rd parameter causes a recursion error.

Edit: Larry, you're a bastard. You tidy the script no more than a minute after I read the original left justified version.

Edited May 19, 2004 by Valik

[emmanuel]

wouldn't it be cool as hell to have the forums run tidy on anything in code tags? or make a new type called [tidycode]? anyways, pipedreams...

[lte5000]

Or we should all use Tidy before we post.

The code looks fairly fine in Crimson Editor, but it does not look so fine on hiddensoft.com.

K

[emmanuel]

Or we should all use Tidy before we post. 

The code looks fairly fine in Crimson Editor, but it does not look so fine on hiddensoft.com. 

K

lol, yup... I am kind of tidy compulsive, I like how it leaves me with a rolling history of the script I'm working on, though I've switched to SciTE and it does all the indents on the fly, which is hella cool... (I still tidy all the damned time, it's fun!)

[trids]

Tidy is a cool tool, but I believe the best solution is to adopt the discipline of formatting while coding. This has benefits that aid development too .. not just maintenance

[jpm]

Tidy is a cool tool, but I believe the best solution is to adopt the discipline of formatting while coding. This has benefits that aid development too .. not just maintenance 

I always use tidy after typing just incase of

[lte5000]

Actually I try to be rather tidy with my coding, too. But, I hadn't really considered the fact that in HTML the tabs have no effect (correct?).

I've never used Tidy up to this point.

Ken

Edited May 20, 2004 by lte5000

[trids]

Actually I try to be rather tidy with my coding, too. But, I hadn't really considered the fact that in HTML the tabs have no effect (correct?). 

.. Correct .. but spaces do, within the CODE tags supported by the forum. And if you use a cool editor (like TextPad ) then you can make your tabs come out as spaces anyway.

(Then you don't have to use Tidy at all)

[lte5000]

I use Crimson Editor, but I did try Scite last evening. I couldn't figure out how to change the default font (too small), though and the Scite helpfile seemed to be broken, so I guess I'll have to go back to Crimson (Excuses.... Excuses... )

TextPad, hmm...

You are welcome to download a copy for free evaluation.

K

[Jos]

I use Crimson Editor, but I did try Scite last evening. I couldn't figure out how to change the default font (too small), though and the Scite helpfile seemed to be broken, so I guess I'll have to go back to Crimson (Excuses.... Excuses...  )

TextPad, hmm...  

K

The Documentation can be found in the subdir doc called SciTEDoc.html.

The Scitehelp will be fixed with the next release thats coming soon... tnx for mentioning it...

The best thing is to make the changes in the User option files because this will not be overridden when you upgrade....

To change the font just Open the User Option file and add these line to it:

use.monospaced=1 -> this tell Scite to use mono space font

font.monospace=font:Courier New,size:10

and these are all the definitions for all different type of code color settings

you can customise them all if you want.

# White space

style.au3.0=fore:#000000,$(font.au3)

# Comment line

style.au3.1=fore:#009933,italics

# Comment block

style.au3.2=fore:#669900,italics

# Number

style.au3.3=fore:#AC00A9,bold,italics

# Function

style.au3.4=fore:#000090,bold,italics

# Keyword

style.au3.5=fore:#0000FF,bold

# Macro

style.au3.6=fore:#FF33FF,bold

# String

style.au3.7=fore:#9999CC,bold

# Operator

style.au3.8=fore:#FF0000,bold

# Variable

style.au3.9=fore:#AA0000,bold

# Sent keys in string

style.au3.10=fore:#FF8800,bold

# Pre-Processor

style.au3.11=fore:#F000FF,italics

Edited May 21, 2004 by JdeB

[piccaso]

This is nice

but your function does not check if Balloontips are enabled

XP has

Key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Value:EnableBalloonTips

Set to 0 if they are disabled (missing means enabled)

[lte5000]

Thank you for you comments, piccaso!

I updated the code above.

JdeB, Thank you for your informative post, I'll want to try out your stuff sometime.

Kendall

Edited May 23, 2004 by lte5000