How to show a baloon tooltip

[Rishav]

Hi folks

I have created a UI which has some buttons. I would love to have some balloon tooltips popup when the cursor is placed over that buttons for a sec.

so far i haven't been able to do that.

any help?

regards

Rishav

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#Include <GuiToolTip.au3>

Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1)


Local $button1, $buttonclose, $Main, $htool

$Main=GUICreate("test", 240, 180)
$button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("1", 0, 0, 40, 40, $BS_ICON)
GUICtrlSetImage(-1, "shell32.dll", 5)

$htool=_GUIToolTip_Create($Main, $TTS_BALLOON )
_GUIToolTip_SetToolInfo($Main, "Fire all the damned missiles!")
_GUIToolTip_Activate($htool,True)

GUISetState()

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ExitLoop
        Case $button1
            ExitLoop

    EndSwitch
WEnd

GUIDelete()
Exit

Edited August 12, 2009 by Rishav

[enaiman]

Why are you trying to re-invent the wheel?

Read about GUICtrlSetTip

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>

Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1)


Local $button1, $buttonclose, $Main, $htool

$Main=GUICreate("test", 240, 180)
$button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("1", 0, 0, 40, 40, $BS_ICON)
GUICtrlSetTip(-1, "Fire all the damned missiles!", "", 0, 1)
GUICtrlSetImage(-1, "shell32.dll", 5)

GUISetState()

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ExitLoop
        Case $button1
            ExitLoop

    EndSwitch
WEnd

GUIDelete()
Exit

[Rishav]

eh? wasn't trying to invent the wheel. searching for tooltips in the help file i got the UDFs, and due to a lack of examples i simply had no idea how to proceed. i was going with trial and error without much success.

anyway thanks a lot.this is exactly what I wanted.