This recipe will show you 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.
Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA.
He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course.
He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course.
In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team.
When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
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This recipe will show you 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 will be 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'd want it to be.
In order to achieve this desired functionality, we will place our tooltip code in its own OOP class.
These are the steps to...
Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA.
He is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course.
He is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course.
In his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team.
When not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.
Read more about Burkhard Meier