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$tip Allows you to create scripted tips that are independent of normal tip events.

Synopsis

$tip(<name>,<title>,<text>,delay,iconfn,iconpos,alias,wid) 
create a tip, returns Nth position of tip if successfully created, 0 if not

$tip(N/name) - returns information about a tip

Paramters

• name - The name of your tip.
• title - The title of your tip.
• text - The text appearing inside the tip, can contain colors
• delay - The duration of the tip, betwee, 3 and 60
• iconfn - the filename of the icon, if you want to use any
• iconpos - the position of the icon for a file containing multiple icons
• alias - the alias that will be called when the tip is double clicked
• wid - the id of the window to which the tip belongs
• N - reference the Nth tip.

Properties

When only one parameter is passed to $tip, you can use the following properties:

• .name - returns the name of the tip (used with the N parameter typically)
• .title - return the title of the tip
• .text - return the text of the tip
• .delay - return the delay of the tip
• .iconfn - return the icon filename used if any
• .iconpos - return the position of the icon for a file containing multiple icons
• .alias - return the name of the alias called when double clicking the tip
• .wid - return the id the window to which the tip belongs

Example

//echo -a $tip(test,test,test)

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v6.3
Added on: 16 Aug 2007
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.

See Also

/tip /tips $tips