Arma 3 Scripting

ctrlSetTooltip

  • Arma 3 v0.50
  • First in Armed Assault v1.00

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Description

Sets tooltip text of given control.

Note

If control supports URL property, like RscActiveText for example, and the URL is set, tooltip text displayed on mouse over will be appended with URL text.

Syntax

control ctrlSetTooltip text

Parameters:

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

_control ctrlSetTooltip "tooltip";

Example 2

findDisplay 10000 displayCtrl 10001 ctrlSetTooltip "ThisIsAGoodTip";

Example 3

with uiNamespace do
{
    bar = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty" ctrlCreate ["RscProgress", -1];
    bar ctrlSetPosition [0,0,1,0.01];
    bar ctrlCommit 0;
    bar progressSetPosition 0.75;
    bar ctrlSetTooltip "lalalalalalalala";
};

See also

ctrlSetTooltipColorBox · ctrlSetTooltipColorShade · ctrlSetTooltipColorText

Community notes

Demellion

NOTE: If you want to receive a multi-line tooltip, you can simply input newline escape symbol in your text:

_ctrl ctrlSetTooltip "Your text\nYour text on next line";

Localization files (stringtable.xml) also supports that.