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[stanman]

Does anybody know a way to copy the text that appears in a tooltip? When the mouse cursor hovers over certain parts of the screen, a box appears displaying some text. Is there a way to copy some or all of that text to the clipboard, or to a text file?

[Serenity]

Yes. A tooltip has a window class of tooltips_class32, use ControlGetText to get the text.
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[stanman]

This is what I have so far but it doesn't return anything.
What am I doing wrong?

#P::
ControlGetText, OutputVar, tooltips_class32
;WinActivate, Document - WordPad
;send, %OutputVar%
MsgBox, The text is %OutputVar%
return

[stanman]

I think I figured it out

ControlGetText, OutputVar,,ahk_class tooltips_class32

seems to work

Thanks for your help.