Changing mouse cursor on Winactive

[Lambort]

Is there any way to change the mouse cursor when a specified window is active? This window is not made in autoit, it is actually a full screen game. Any ideas?

Also, is there any way to change the background color/font color/size of a tooltip?

[PaulIA]

Is there any way to change the mouse cursor when a specified window is active? This window is not made in autoit, it is actually a full screen game. Any ideas?

Also, is there any way to change the background color/font color/size of a tooltip?

There is a ToolTip module in Auto3Lib that allows you to manipulate tooltips. In the ToolTip demo, I have some code that shows how to change the tooltip in a external application.

As for cursors, you might want to take a look at this MSDN site that gives you all of the API calls for cursors. There are a few of these in Auto3Lib as well.

[Valuater]

Is there any way to change the mouse cursor when a specified window is active? This window is not made in autoit, it is actually a full screen game. Any ideas?

yes,

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Local $active = 0, $begin = TimerInit()

GUICreate("game")
GUISetState()

While 1
    If GUIGetMsg() = -3 Then Exit
    
    If WinActive("game") And Not $active Then
        $active = 1
        GUISetCursor(15)
    ElseIf Not WinActive("game") And $active Then
        $active = Not $active
        GUISetCursor(9)
    EndIf

    $dif = TimerDiff($begin)
    If $dif > 5000 And $active Then WinSetTitle("game", "", "my gui")
    
WEnd

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[Lambort]

There is a ToolTip module in Auto3Lib that allows you to manipulate tooltips. In the ToolTip demo, I have some code that shows how to change the tooltip in a external application.

As for cursors, you might want to take a look at this MSDN site that gives you all of the API calls for cursors. There are a few of these in Auto3Lib as well.

Can you post this code that shows how to change the tooltip in an external application?

yes,

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Local $active = 0, $begin = TimerInit()

GUICreate("game")
GUISetState()

While 1
    If GUIGetMsg() = -3 Then Exit
    
    If WinActive("game") And Not $active Then
        $active = 1
        GUISetCursor(15)
    ElseIf Not WinActive("game") And $active Then
        $active = Not $active
        GUISetCursor(9)
    EndIf

    $dif = TimerDiff($begin)
    If $dif > 5000 And $active Then WinSetTitle("game", "", "my gui")
    
WEnd

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As for this. Thanks, but I really can't figure out how to get it to work. It seems that it only changes the cursor for the GUI it creates. I suck, I know, But I'm trying to learn

[PaulIA]

Can you post this code that shows how to change the tooltip in an external application?

Uh... no.

I suck, I know, But I'm trying to learn

The first thing you need to learn is to do a little bit of the work yourself. Asking me to post code so you don't have to download a file is just lazy. Edited November 22, 2006 by PaulIA

[Lambort]

Uh... no.

The first thing you need to learn is to do a little bit of the work yourself. Asking me to post code so you don't have to download a file is just lazy.

I didn't know where to get it, sorry.....