Display message when hovering over something with mouse cursor in Python

Question

I have a GUI made with TKinter in Python. I would like to be able to display a message when my mouse cursor goes, for example, on top of a label or button. The purpose of th

Answer 1

If anyone is on Mac OSX and tool tip isn't working, check out the example in:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/idlelib/tooltip.py

Basically, the two lines that made it work for me on Mac OSX were:

    tw.update_idletasks()  # Needed on MacOS -- see #34275.
    tw.lift()  # work around bug in Tk 8.5.18+ (issue #24570)