ToolTip¶

Allows for the easy creation of tool tips that are displayed below buttons. Requires a widget and overlays a simple tool tip once hovered over by the mouse. Created with py:meth:createToolTip

class ToolTip(widget)[source]¶

Displays text in a label below a passed widget

Parameters:	widget – The widget tooltip will be binding text to

hide_tip()[source]¶

Hide or destroy the tool tip label when the mouse leaves widget. Bound to the '<Leave>' event when createToolTip() is called

show_tip(text)[source]¶

Create and pack the tooltip, bound to the '<Enter>' event when createToolTip() is called

Parameters:	text (str) – string to place inside label

create_tool_tip(widget, text)[source]¶

Create an instance of ToolTip and bind the '<Enter>' and '<Leave>' events for displaying to the widget passed

Parameters:	widget – the widget for the tooltip to be displayed below text (str) – text contained in the tooltip