jessielw / custom-tkinter-tooltip

Basic Hover Tooltip for Tkinter based off of Tkinter's built in tooltip with the added ability to customize options

Custom-Tkinter-Tooltip

Basic Hover Tooltip for Tkinter based off of Tkinter's built in tooltip with the added ability to customize most options

Install:

pip install --upgrade Custom-Tooltip

https://pypi.org/project/Custom-Tooltip/

Uninstall:

pip uninstall Custom-Tooltip

Use:

Example:

from custom_hovertip import CustomTooltipLabel
CustomTooltipLabel(anchor_widget=button1, text="This is tooltip text for button1.")

Full Example:

from tkinter import *
from custom_hovertip import CustomTooltipLabel

top = Tk()
top.title("Test Custom Tooltip")
label = Label(top, text="Place your mouse over buttons")
label.pack()
button1 = Button(top, text="Button 1")
button1.pack()
CustomTooltipLabel(anchor_widget=button1, text="This is tooltip text for button1.")
button2 = Button(top, text="Button 2")
button2.pack()
CustomTooltipLabel(anchor_widget=button2, text="This is tooltip\ntext for button2.", background="grey",
                   foreground="black", width=15, justify=CENTER)
top.mainloop()

You only have to define the widget it's anchored to as well as the text. You can see this example under button1

Customization:

References to the Label Widget: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/tk_label.htm and https://www.pythontutorial.net/tkinter/tkinter-label/

Options that can be changed are: justify, foreground, background, relief, font, wraplength, anchor, border, width, textvariable

Pictures:

custom-tkinter-tooltip's Issues

Not on top of TopMost windows

I have a GUI with a switch to toggle if it's always on top or not, but it's in a tight space so I can't have the full "Always on Top" label and shortened it to AoT. I wanted a tooltip to tell people what that meant, but when the switch is on, the tooltip is behind the GUI. It looks great when it's off so the tooltip is on top, though.

edit: adding this on line 33 solves it for your example, but not when importing as a module:
tw.attributes('-topmost', True)