# general purpose 'tooltip' routines - currently unused in idlefork
# (although the 'calltips' extension is partly based on this code)
# may be useful for some purposes in (or almost in ;) the current project scope
# Ideas gleaned from PySol
def __init__(self, button):
self._id1 = self.button.bind("<Enter>", self.enter)
self._id2 = self.button.bind("<Leave>", self.leave)
self._id3 = self.button.bind("<ButtonPress>", self.leave)
def enter(self, event=None):
def leave(self, event=None):
self.id = self.button.after(1500, self.showtip)
self.button.after_cancel(id)
# The tip window must be completely outside the button;
# otherwise when the mouse enters the tip window we get
# a leave event and it disappears, and then we get an enter
# event and it reappears, and so on forever :-(
x = self.button.winfo_rootx() + 20
y = self.button.winfo_rooty() + self.button.winfo_height() + 1
self.tipwindow = tw = Toplevel(self.button)
tw.wm_overrideredirect(1)
tw.wm_geometry("+%d+%d" % (x, y))
def showcontents(self, text="Your text here"):
# Override this in derived class
label = Label(self.tipwindow, text=text, justify=LEFT,
background="#ffffe0", relief=SOLID, borderwidth=1)
class ToolTip(ToolTipBase):
def __init__(self, button, text):
ToolTipBase.__init__(self, button)
ToolTipBase.showcontents(self, self.text)
class ListboxToolTip(ToolTipBase):
def __init__(self, button, items):
ToolTipBase.__init__(self, button)
listbox = Listbox(self.tipwindow, background="#ffffe0")
listbox.insert(END, item)
root.title("Test tooltip")
width, height, x, y = list(map(int, re.split('[x+]', parent.geometry())))
root.geometry("+%d+%d"%(x, y + 150))
label = Label(root, text="Place your mouse over buttons")
button1 = Button(root, text="Button 1")
button2 = Button(root, text="Button 2")
ToolTip(button1, "This is tooltip text for button1.")
ListboxToolTip(button2, ["This is","multiple line",
"tooltip text","for button2"])
if __name__ == '__main__':
from idlelib.idle_test.htest import run