Balloon Text Tool Tips With Tkinter - Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial #131

In this video I'll show you how to do Balloon Text Tool Tips with Tkinter and Python.

To create our tool tips, we'll use tix widgets. Tix widgets were deprecated back in Python 3.6 or so, and you shouldn't use them...unless you really really want to ;-) They aren't the best-documented widgets out there, and they are no longer maintained; so use at your own risk!

[Codemycom]

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[jmachado]

Hi! To turn the baloon's background color to white, one can use:
for sub in tip.subwidgets_all():
sub.configure(bg='white')

[hackercop]

Just use the Pmw libary for balloon widgets instead its much newer and looks better. Here's some demo code

from tkinter import *
import Pmw

root = Tk()
Pmw.initialise(root)

# Create some random widget
button = Button(root, text = " This is a Test", pady = 30)
button.pack(pady = 10)

# create ballon object and bind it to the widget
balloon = Pmw.Balloon(root)
balloon.bind(button, "Text for the tool tip")

mainloop()

[EFoxVN]

Thanks for the video. A thought: A guy named Burkhard Meier took a completely different route (in a book of his) with regards to Tooltips in Tkinter. He basically creates a small little new Toplevel window with the toolbar removed which he binds with the widget. He uses a class of course and passes the widget and the tooltip text. With the toplevel window, you can set the colours to your liking as well. Maybe you can make a lesson on that method one day... 😉
All this just goes to show that if a programmer wants to do something he will find a way...

[RyanDanielG]

Smash that like button guys n gals! its free! great python tkinter tutorial, Codemy. Thanks

[parsabahrambeik]

Thank you very much. Was very precise work.

[microknigh]

So why has this functionality been deprecated with nothing equivalent to replace it?

[jeffsharp]

Thanks for the videos! Can you bind tix to treeview headers?

[cmputerprgrammer]

Sir, how to make label widgets selectable, so that the user can copy the selected text if needed.

[kendalk]

Im not sure if youll see this. I made a label with place(x=mouse_x, y=mouse_y) and it works, but when i place_forget my buttons disappear if the "tooltip" was on top of the buttons. And i dont understand why. Maybe you could shed some light on it?

[saritachaurasia]

Want a video on - How can we make our Tkinter app a executable file using cx-freeze and the proper way to distribute our apps to others.
Plz plz plz sir !!

[gouravsharma]

Hello chief...i am working on a school project...i seen your videos of CRM and made a project on that....I wanna know...how can we do that if another person filled all entries...and it will be saved in same database...let as assume the person is far far miles away...and i gave him my exe file of project and he tries that project from his home....
Help me to get out of this problem....?

[tonnykizito]

Balloon tips work fine but when I convert it to excitable file using pyinstaller, it show a massage " can't find package Tix" really I'm stuck.

[ramehharmouch]

in the video number 124, you put the excel columns manually, how to get the number of columns and rows active in an excel file automatic?

Example: how to do a for loops to get the numbers of rows and columns from the excel file ?
What is the python function name to get the rows and columns from the excel file ?

[pititav.c.]

Keep explaining like that!!!! Fantastic.
But, tix after 2002, does no give any update. And actually it is not working for tcl and tk after v.8.4.
I am in python 3.8, so the only way is installing also previous versions of tcl and tk.

[altaiba]

Why doesn't works in python 3.8.6?
It shows me package require Tix

[shehab]

sir, i am getting this...
_tkinter.TclError: invalid command name "tixBalloon"
code -
from tkinter.tix import*
tip_line=Balloon(root)

[fhtommy]

Doesn't work for me. _tkinter.TclError: can't find package Tix
Hope you will show a different method for this depreciated tool.
Thanks so much for these videos!

[KrosTurbo]

lol, just chaned from " root = tkinter.Tk() "
to " root = Tk " and works well :p

thanks for tutorial <3

[khaidemsandip]

_tkinter.TclError: can't find package Tix on Macos