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by shivanisanju03 dot icon Updated: Apr 13, 2023

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In this kit, we will see how to create tooltips for widgets in Tkinter Python. Tooltips are used to provide additional information or context about the element over which the mouse pointer is positioned and can be useful for users trying to learn more about a particular feature or option in the GUI.

First we create our basic window along with a single widget. We will bind two events to this widget, the "Enter" event (when the mouse cursor is over the widget) and the "Leave" event (when the mouse moves away from the widget).


We also initialize our help window object to "None". Declaring it with self is important so that all the functions we define in this class can access it.


Please check below code to know how to create tooltips for widgets in Tkinter Python

Fig: Preview of the output that you will get on running this code from your IDE

Code


Tkinter Tooltip over a text only in a text widget

PythondotLines of Code : 25dotLicense : Strong Copyleft (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dependent Libraries : 
import tkinter as tk

def show_info(text):
    label.configure(text=text)

root = tk.Tk()
text_widget = tk.Text(root)
label = tk.Label(root)

label.pack(side="top", fill="x")
text_widget.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

for color in ("red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet"):
    tag = color
    text = color
    text_widget.insert("end", text+"\n", (tag, ))

    text_widget.tag_configure(tag, background=color, foreground="white")
    text_widget.tag_bind(tag, "<Enter>",
                         lambda event, color=color: show_info(color))
    text_widget.tag_bind(tag, "<Leave>",
                         lambda event, color=color: show_info(""))

tk.mainloop()

Instructions


Follow the steps carefully to get the output easily..

  1. Copy the snippet using the 'copy' and paste it in your IDE
  2. Install tkinter using pip command : 'pip install tk'
  3. Run the file to generate the output.


I hope you found this useful. I have added version information in the following sections.


I found this code snippet by searching for ' Tkinter tooltip over a text only in a text widget ' in kandi. You can try any such use case!

Dependent Library


Tkinter-Designerby ParthJadhav

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            Tkinter-Designerby ParthJadhav

            Python doticon star image 5885 doticonVersion:v1.0.7doticon License: Permissive (BSD-3-Clause)

            An easy and fast way to create a Python GUI 🐍
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                      You can search for any dependent libraries like 'Tkinter'

                      Environment tested


                      I tested this solution in the following versions. Be mindful of changes when working with other versions.

                      1. The solution is created in PyCharm 2022.3.3 (Community Edition)
                      2. The solution is tested on Python 3.11.1.



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