I'm trying to display a list of hotkeys in a tooltip.

[LAPIII]

I put the hotkeys in a variable, but I need help:

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#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen

Hotkeys := [X = Close, O = Open]

ToolTip, %Hotkeys%, 872, 469
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, -5000
return

RemoveToolTip:
ToolTip
return

I would also like the tooltip to launch with the hotkey Ctrl + F1.

[boiler]

I put the hotkeys in a variable

No, you have not. By now, you really should be learning these fundamentals.

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#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode, ToolTip, Screen

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, Hotkey in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= Hotkey "`n"
return

^F1::
	ToolTip, %HotkeyList%, 872, 469
	SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, -5000
return

RemoveToolTip:
	ToolTip
return

[LAPIII]

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#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode("ToolTip", "Screen")

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, Hotkey in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= Hotkey "`n"
return

^F1::{
ToolTip(HotkeyList, 872, 469)


	SetTimer(RemoveToolTip,-5000)
}

RemoveToolTip:
	ToolTip
	

I got:

Hotkeys_tooltip.ahk 18_04_23 06⦂22⦂49⦂191 PM.jpg (33.12 KiB) Viewed 568 times

[boiler]

As the error message shows, v2 doesn't let you use the built-in function name Hotkey as your variable. So just change it to something else. You also have to make RemoveToolTip a function, because there are no labeled subroutines in v2.

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode("ToolTip", "Screen")

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, HK in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= HK "`n"
return

^F1::{
	ToolTip(HotkeyList, 872, 469)
	SetTimer(RemoveToolTip,-5000)
}

RemoveToolTip() {
	ToolTip
}

[LAPIII]

Thank you, I tried to implement a toggle and an error says that the variable online 12 has not been assigned value:

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode("ToolTip", "Screen")

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, HK in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= HK "`n"
return

^F1::{
 If (Toggle = False) {
Toggle := True
ToolTip(HotkeyList, 872, 469)
 } Else If (Toggle = True) {

      Toggle := False

      ToolTip()

   }
}

esc::{
RemoveToolTip:
	ToolTip()
}

[boiler]

You just need to give it an initial value. Insert this line at line 5:

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Toggle := False

By the way, you don’t need Else If…. It can just be Else because there is no reason to check if it’s True when the only other alternative relative to the first If is that it is True.

[boiler]

Sorry, what I said above is not correct because it’s in a function. You can initialize it as the first line inside the function like this:

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static Toggle := False

[LAPIII]

It ssays that is an unexpected declaration.

[boiler]

You must not have done what I said. Where did you put that line?

[LAPIII]

Line 5

[boiler]

Read what I said again about where to put the static declaration.

[LAPIII]

I'm lost now. After errors said to get rid of the { in line 11, Else in line 14, } in lines 20 and 21, { in line 14, and the return preceding line 14, I got the variable for line number 14 has not been assigned a value. Here is the script:

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode("ToolTip", "Screen")

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, HK in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= HK "`n"
return
^F1::{
 static Toggle := False {
Toggle := True
ToolTip(HotkeyList, 872, 469)
 } Else (Toggle = True)
{}

      Toggle := False

      ToolTip()}
   }
}

esc::{
RemoveToolTip:
	ToolTip()
}

[boiler]

Huh? Go back to your last script, and don’t do anything else but add the line I said to add as the first line in the function.

[LAPIII]

Okay

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#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance Force
#NoTrayIcon
CoordMode("ToolTip", "Screen")

Hotkeys := ["X = Close", "O = Open"]
for Each, HK in Hotkeys
	HotkeyList .= HK "`n"
return

^F1::{
static Toggle := False {
Toggle := True
ToolTip(HotkeyList, 872, 469)
 } Else (Toggle = True) {

      Toggle := False

      ToolTip()

   }
}

esc::{
RemoveToolTip:
	ToolTip()
}

[boiler]

No, I didn’t say to replace the if statement. Insert it before that line as a new line in the function.

[LAPIII]

I don't know if there is some interference, but The tooltip will only blip on the screen after pressing ^F1 many times. And As you can see from this a animated gif that I made to show you so what I had just explained, the tooltip seems to actually be something that jumps around the screen:

Hotkeys_tooltip.ahk_-_SciTE4AutoHotkey_[4_of_4] 18_04_23 11⦂42⦂58⦂894 PM.gif (36.65 KiB) Viewed 492 times

[boiler]

When I said you only needed Else instead of Else If…, you can’t leave in the condition (Toggle = True) that went along with the If. That has to come out too. The way you have it now, that’s the only thing that executes as a condition of the else. The stuff in the braces below it now executes no matter what, whether the else or if branch is is true.

Just get rid of the (Toggle = True), and it should all work.