TrayTip(...) not working

[Slippy]

I am currently making a different script, and I tried to use TrayTip(...) only to find it didn't work. It did nothing. So, I created another .au3 file to test out the function.

Opt("TrayIconHide", 0)
Sleep(100)
TrayTip("ROSE Online", "Script is starting. Press ESC key to terminate the loop, ending the script.", 5, 1)

The icon appears (allbeit for a brief second) and then disappears. There is no traytip.

Any ideas? Or am I not utilizing the function correctly?

[Valik]

Where exactly do you expect the TrayTip to stem from when you hide the icon?

[Slippy]

1 is hide, 0 is show.

Edited January 2, 2005 by Slippy

[CyberSlug]

Notice that the TrayTip documentation says that the "timeout" paramter is a rough estimate. AutoIt does not pause that amount of time, so if there are no other statements after TrayTip, the script exits....

Tray adding a Sleep(5000) at the very end of your script (like the example in the TrayTip docs).

Other notes: Make sure you are running Windows 2000/XP. Also, if you use a variable for the text parameter, make sure it it not an empty string:

TrayTip("This tray tip will never appear because the body is empty", "", 5)
Sleep(5000)

Edited January 2, 2005 by CyberSlug

[Slippy]

Notice that the TrayTip documentation says that the "timeout" paramter is a rough estimate.  AutoIt does not pause that amount of time, so if there are no other statements after TrayTip, the script exits....

Tray adding a Sleep(5000) at the very end of your script (like the example in the TrayTip docs).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I did. Didn't work. So I added Sleep(50000) instead of 5000, still didn't work.

[CyberSlug]

Ah, it might be that problem caused by Windows XP Service Pack 2.

See my post at http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...wtopic=5506&hl=

[Valik]

1 is hide, 0 is show.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good point, I didn't expect a statement to be present when showing is the default behavior anyway.

[Slippy]

I have SP1. I refuse to update to SP2

Yeah, Valik, I tried it without that and it didn't work so I figured why not add it in..

[Valik]

You haven't used a registry tweak/third-party program to disable "Balloon Tips" have you?

[Slippy]

Nope. This worked on my old PC, so hmm..

[CyberSlug]

Did you check http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/997/ ?

[Slippy]

Yup. I added the value, and rebooted. Didn't work.

[this-is-me]

I think you are missing something...

Opt("TrayIconHide", 0)
Sleep(100)
TrayTip("ROSE Online", "Script is starting. Press ESC key to terminate the loop, ending the script.", 5, 1)
Sleep(2000)

Edited January 4, 2005 by this-is-me