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incith

Joined: 01 Oct 2005
Posts: 130
Location: Canada

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject:

That, or a big If/Else list.. if control == foo, tooltip = bar..else..

Veovis

Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 389
Location: Utah

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

I tried that at first with an old version of my AHKPad but i found that it takes less work and time and (lines of code) to simple define

Code:

GuiObjectsVar_TT = This is its tooltip

than adding

Code:

If A_guicontrol = GuiObjectsVar
tooltip = This is its tooltip

as a long list of if/elses can get ugly and (correct me if im wrong) use more cpu time than using a pseudo-array.

Thanks for everyone contributions! I think it would be cool to implement something into AHK go you could define something like

Code:

Gui, add, Button, gSave t"Save the File",Save

hmmm, that doesnt look the best and we cant add another parameter because to many text controls contain commas...

well Control_TT works fine for me so ill stick to that

(and btw i like the new coloring in the code sections! )
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Veovis

Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 389
Location: Utah

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

Hmmmmm

just ran into a problem

Code:

gui, add, button,gSave,Save File
gui, add, button,gSave vSave, Save File (vSave) works!
gui, add, button,gMoveUp,^
gui, show

Save_tt = this tooltip works

OnMessage(0x200, "WM_MOUSEMOVE")
return

WM_MOUSEMOVE()
{
static PrevControl, _TT ; _TT is defined as a static variable (blank) for use by the ToolTip command below.
CurrControl := A_GuiControl
If (CurrControl <> PrevControl)
{
ToolTip % %CurrControl%_TT
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 4000
PrevControl := CurrControl
}
}
RemoveToolTip:
ToolTip
return

Save:
MoveUp:
return

This is very simplified, it is a project im working on with almost all the code removed. Basically the button with the text "Save File" NEEDS to have a variable assigned to it, so that the Tooltip will not complain because it has a space in its name. Also i have many little buttons with things like "+", "-", "^", "v", or just something with a space in it. This isnt a severe problem other than the fact that you HAVE to assign a variable name to everycontrol that might cause a problem. Is there something we can do to fix this?

Hmmm i have an idea! Idea

Code:

gui, add, button,gSave,Save File
gui, add, button,gSave vSave, Save File (vSave) works!
gui, add, button,gMoveUp,^
gui, show

Save_tt = this tooltip works

OnMessage(0x200, "WM_MOUSEMOVE")
return

WM_MOUSEMOVE()
{
static PrevControl, _TT ; _TT is defined as a static variable (blank) for use by the ToolTip command below.
CurrControl := A_GuiControl
If Illegal(currcontrol)
return
If (CurrControl <> PrevControl)
{
ToolTip % %CurrControl%_TT
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 4000
PrevControl := CurrControl
}
}

RemoveToolTip:
ToolTip
return

Illegal(input)
{
loop, parse,input
{
if A_loopfield is alnum
continue
if A_loopfield in #,_,@,$,?,[,]
continue
return 1
}
}

Save:
MoveUp:
return

Notice that it doesnt warn you or anything that the tooltip didnt work. I did this because if it said something like "control name invalid" it defeats the purpose of not wanting to give a vName to every control. So if you use the code above and a tooltip isnt working, check the name
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