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

I wanted to contribute to the answer of @squareRoot17 as he inspired me to shorten his code while providing the same functionality:

import tkinter as tk

class ToolTip(object):
    def __init__(self, widget, text):
        self.widget = widget
        self.text = text

        def enter(event):
            self.showTooltip()
        def leave(event):
            self.hideTooltip()
        widget.bind('', enter)
        widget.bind('', leave)

    def showTooltip(self):
        self.tooltipwindow = tw = tk.Toplevel(self.widget)
        tw.wm_overrideredirect(1) # window without border and no normal means of closing
        tw.wm_geometry("+{}+{}".format(self.widget.winfo_rootx(), self.widget.winfo_rooty()))
        label = tk.Label(tw, text = self.text, background = "#ffffe0", relief = 'solid', borderwidth = 1).pack()

    def hideTooltip(self):
        tw = self.tooltipwindow
        tw.destroy()
        self.tooltipwindow = None

This class can then be imported and used as:

import tkinter as tk
from tooltip import ToolTip

root = tk.Tk() 

your_widget = tk.Button(root, text = "Hover me!")
ToolTip(widget = your_widget, text = "Hover text!")

root.mainloop()