This recipe will show us how to create ToolTips. When the user hovers the mouse over a widget, additional information will be available in the form of a ToolTip.
We will code this additional information into our GUI.
We are adding more useful functionality to our GUI. Surprisingly, adding a ToolTip to our controls should be simple, but it is not as simple as we wish it to be.
In order to achieve this desired functionality, we will place our ToolTip code into its own OOP class.
Add this class just below the import statements:
class ToolTip(object):
def __init__(self, widget):
self.widget = widget
self.tipwindow = None
self.id = None
self.x = self.y = 0
def showtip(self, text):
"Display text in tooltip window"
self.text = text
if self.tipwindow or not self.text:
return
x, y, _cx, cy = self.widget.bbox("insert")
x = x + self.widget.winfo_rootx()...