Balloon Text Tool Tips With Tkinter - Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial

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use them...unless you really really want to ;-) They aren't the best-documented widgets out there, and they are no longer maintained; so use at your own risk!

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[@toxxmoloi1873]

You always know what we need when we need it

[@Codemycom]

@@toxxmoloi1873 :-)

[@toxxmoloi1873]

Can you make a video showing us how to install the tix module because it keeps saying that it can't find the module

[@Codemycom]

@@toxxmoloi1873 There's nothing to install. It comes with python, you just have to import it like I did in the video

[@parsabahrambeik4381]

Thank you very much. Was very precise work.

[@Codemycom]

Glad it helped

[@SammarpanDasguptaOfficial]

Awesome video sir.....love your teaching..............

[@Codemycom]

Thanks

[@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

[@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()

[@ricardosanchezglod9443]

can i hide this?

[@sailendrachettri8521]

Thanks for sharing man!

[@hackercop]

@@sailendrachettri8521 You're welcome!

[@Doshinkyo]

Yep, this is the best sollution I've found. Anyone know if there's a way to change the bg color of a Pmw Balloon?

[@jeffsharp7329]

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

[@kendalk08]

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?

[@jmachado9875]

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

[@Codemycom]

good tip

[@sinakarimi8273]

It's good and it config 5 widget in the loop, the first one affect the root, so if you choose color like green, the background of the app change to green too, for this problem you should skip index 0 of the loop to skip the affection of the root! for index,sub in enumerate (tip.subwidgets_all()) : if index > 0: sub.configure(bg='red')

[@sinakarimi8273]

Index 0 = . Index 1 = balloon.f1 Index 2 = balloon.f1.label Index 3 = balloon.f2 Index 4 = ballooon.f2.message

[@jmachado9875]

@@sinakarimi8273 Great, thanks for sharing!

[@sinakarimi8273]

@@jmachado9875 you're welcome sir

[@ramehharmouch6245]

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 ?

[@charanreddy5227]

Thanks sir

[@Codemycom]

Welcome!

[@tonnykizito816]

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.

[@pititav.c.6618]

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.

[@gouravsharma319]

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....?

[@Codemycom]

instead of using a local database you would use one hosted online

[@marcus.the.younger]

@@Codemycom maybe mysql?

[@Codemycom]

@@marcus.the.younger sure

[@shehab976]

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

[@Codemycom]

Rewatch the video, you forgot to import tix

[@saritachaurasia5326]

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 !!

[@Codemycom]

noted

[@cmputerprgrammer7800]

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

[@cmputerprgrammer7800]

@@cool-cloud But, the user can edit the text box...i dont need that....i want the user to select the text for copying.

[@Codemycom]

@@cmputerprgrammer7800 You could bind the label, and then run a function to do whatever you want.

[@altaiba3]

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

[@Codemycom]

You need tix no matter what version of python you use...that’s why I Import it in this video...

[@ranjanacharyya4917]

Why tip =Balloon(root) does not work?

[@microknigh7]

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

[@microknigh7]

Haha I posted before finishing the vid. Now I know why it was deprecated LOL

[@Codemycom]

@@microknigh7 lol

[@dragoneater2008_]

@@microknigh7 why has I’dt been deprecated?

[@microknigh7]

@@dragoneater2008_ Coz it was a crap implementation

[@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!

[@sailendrachettri8521]

I'm also not able to use this module. I am using Linux mint so, I am able to use this after installed this sudo apt install tix-dev

[@altaiba3]

Can I set an image in the tooltip?

[@Codemycom]

No

[@ameyanand1065]

i searched for official documentation but could not find anything tkinter.tix was replaced by tkinter.ttk after python 3.6 but did not find anything in that too :( btw love your videos and first to see this ;) 57 seconds after you uploaded

[@Codemycom]

Yeah there's not much documentation on it

[@dsademonslayeramv5763]

It not working in Python 3.11

[@Codemycom]

yes it is

[@khaidemsandip4151]

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

[@Codemycom]

tix should be lowercase not uppercase

[@khaidemsandip4151]

@@Codemycom it is lower case and it is still not working. I am actually doing tkinter simple calculator app right now on your videos. Cool videos .

[@Codemycom]

@@khaidemsandip4151 If the error message says capital Tix (as you posted) then somewhere in our app you listed it as capital Tix and need to fix that.

[@KrosTurbo]

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

[@Codemycom]

it depends on how you imported tkinter

[@KornJohnGaming]

u should do a tutorial of selenium

[@Codemycom]

Noted

[@KornJohnGaming]

@@Codemycom oh and pygame will also be lovely! all of them are like 12 hrs, ur way of teaching is always better

[@shaunakn5881]

sEcOnD

[@Codemycom]

Sweet

[@eddw123]

good to know about old time dusty packages totally deprecated for 2022 🗿

[@Codemycom]

It's a video from 2000, it may be deprecated but it still works, and you're the one who watched it lol

[@samuelmota8213]

Error: can't find package Tix

[@Codemycom]

you either didn't import it or used a capital T instead of lowercase t

[@felipeamaralsantos301]

how do i remove that horrible yellow background?

[@Codemycom]

Didn't I address that in the video?

[@Thelimbers7]

@@Codemycom No, you didn't

[@TheHolsback]

not working anymore :(

[@Codemycom]

Yes it is, you typed the code wrong

[@devjoinable2]

Why anybody doesn't watch to you? :(

[@Codemycom]

Good question!

[@devjoinable2]

@@Codemycom i think you're good instructor

[@Codemycom]

@@devjoinable2 Thanks!

[@ajinkyasonwane4433]

He is going to have exponential growth, but we are lucky to be here so early.

[@Codemycom]

@@ajinkyasonwane4433 That would be awesome ;-)

[@DavidDavid-zm1kj]

self.tool_tip = Balloon() self.tool_tip.configure(bg="blue") for nxt in self.tool_tip.subwidgets_all(): nxt.configure(bg="green") pass

[@sirsquirrel0]

FYI - tkinter.tix is depreciated

[@Codemycom]

Yeah that's what I said in the video lol