Tooltip Features

Examples

Normal tooltips

By default the tooltip activates when entering and/or moving in the widget are and deactivates when leaving and/or pressing any button.

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip

app = tk.Tk()
b = ttk.Button(app, text="Button")
b.pack()
ToolTip(b, msg="Hover info")
app.mainloop()

Delayed tooltip

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip

app = tk.Tk()
b = ttk.Button(app, text="Button")
b.pack()
ToolTip(b, msg="Hover info", delay=2.0)   # True by default
app.mainloop()

Tracking tooltip

Have the tooltip follow the mousse cursor around when moving.

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip

app = tk.Tk()
b = ttk.Button(app, text="Button")
b.pack()
ToolTip(b, msg="Hover info", follow=True)   # True by default
app.mainloop()

Function as tooltip

Here the tooltip returns the value of time.asctime() which updates with every movement. You can control the refresh rate of the ToolTip through the refresh argument by default it is set to 1s.

import time
import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip

app = tk.Tk()
b = ttk.Button(app, text="Button")
b.pack()
# NOTE: pass the function itself not the return value
ToolTip(b, msg=time.asctime, delay=0)
app.mainloop()

Themed tooltip

tkinter-tooltip is fully aware of the underlying theme (in this case a dark theme), and can even be furher customised by passing tk styling arguments to the tooltip

Style tooltip and underlying the button. If a full theme has been used then the ToolTip will inherit the settings of the theme by default.

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip

app = tk.Tk()
s = ttk.Style()
s.configure("custom.TButton", foreground="#ffffff", background="#1c1c1c")
b = ttk.Button(app, text="Button", style="custom.TButton")
b.pack()
ToolTip(b, msg="Hover info", delay=0,
        parent_kwargs={"bg": "black", "padx": 5, "pady": 5},
        fg="#ffffff", bg="#1c1c1c", padx=10, pady=10)