How to collect tooltip information and store it in a variable?

[Raghava Doregowda]

There are some instances where focusing a mouse cursor on an item provides a tooltip that contains/displays certain information such as extensions, details, etc. Is there a way to extract tooltip text from any platform be it desktop or chrome, and store it in a variable?

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If it’s a standard Windows tooltip, then it can usually be done. When the application uses some other tooltip widget, then it’s likely you can’t get it. If I remember correctly, Chrome tooltips fall into the latter category.