Method Reference (COM)

ToolTip

Creates a tooltip anywhere on the screen.

ToolTip "text" [, x, y]

 

Parameters

text The text of the tooltip. (An empty string clears a displaying tooltip)
x, y The x,y position of the tooltip.

 

Return Value

None.

 

Remarks

If the x and y coordinates are omitted the, tip is placed near the mouse cursor. If the coords would cause the tooltip to run off screen, it is repositioned to visible.
Tooltip appears until it is cleared, until script terminates, or sometimes until it is clicked upon. You may use a linefeed character to create multi-line tooltips.

 

Related

TrayTip

 

Example

Set oAutoIt = WScript.CreateObject("AutoItX3.Control")

' This will create a tooltip in the upper left of the screen
oAutoIt.ToolTip "This is a tooltip", 0, 0
oAutoIt.Sleep 2000     ' Sleep to give tooltip time to display