Shows an always-on-top window anywhere on the screen.
ToolTip , Text, X, Y, WhichToolTip
If blank or omitted, the existing tooltip (if any) will be hidden. Otherwise, specify the text to display in the tooltip. To create a multi-line tooltip, use the linefeed character (`n) in between each line, e.g. Line1`nLine2
.
If Text is long, it can be broken up into several shorter lines by means of a continuation section, which might improve readability and maintainability.
If blank or omitted, the tooltip will be shown near the mouse cursor. Otherwise, specify the X and Y position of the tooltip relative to the active window (use CoordMode, ToolTip
to change to screen coordinates). These parameters can be expressions.
If blank or omitted, it defaults to 1 (the first tooltip). Otherwise, specify a number between 1 and 20 to indicate which tooltip to operate upon when using multiple tooltips simultaneously. This parameter can be an expression.
A tooltip usually looks like this:
If the X and Y coordinates caused the tooltip to run off-screen, or outside the monitor's working area on Windows 8 or later, it is repositioned to be entirely visible.
The tooltip is displayed until one of the following occurs:
A GUI window may be made the owner of a tooltip by means of Gui +OwnDialogs. Such a tooltip is automatically destroyed when its owner is destroyed.
CoordMode, TrayTip, GUI, Progress, SplashTextOn, MsgBox, InputBox, FileSelectFile, FileSelectFolder