Tkinter: tooltips (Windows)

[Richard Townsend]

"M-a-S" <NO-MAIL at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How can I have tooltips for buttons of a toolbar
> or for control items of a dialog?
> Does such feature exist at all?
>

You can use the Pmw.Balloon widget to do this.

For Pmw (Python Mega Widgets), see: http://pmw.sourceforge.net/

John Grayson's book 'Python and Tkinter Programming' (see
http://www.manning.com/grayson/index.html) has some examples which use it.

The code in the book can be downloaded from
http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?project=grayson&filename=Source.html

RT