balloontip¶BalloonTip is a class that allows you to display tooltips in a balloon style window.
Description¶BalloonTip is a class that allows you to display tooltips in a balloon style window (actually a frame), similarly to the windows XP balloon help. There is also an arrow that points to the center of the control designed as a “target” for the BalloonTip.
What it can do:
Usage¶Usage example:
import wx
import wx.lib.agw.balloontip as BT
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Frame.__init(self, parent, -1, "BalloonTip Demo")
panel = wx.Panel(self)
# Let's suppose that in your application you have a wx.TextCtrl defined as:
mytextctrl = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1, "I am a textctrl", pos=(100, 100))
# You can define your BalloonTip as follows:
tipballoon = BT.BalloonTip(topicon=None, toptitle="textctrl",
message="this is a textctrl",
shape=BT.BT_ROUNDED,
tipstyle=BT.BT_LEAVE)
# Set the BalloonTip target
tipballoon.SetTarget(mytextctrl)
# Set the BalloonTip background colour
tipballoon.SetBalloonColour(wx.WHITE)
# Set the font for the balloon title
tipballoon.SetTitleFont(wx.Font(9, wx.SWISS, wx.NORMAL, wx.BOLD, False))
# Set the colour for the balloon title
tipballoon.SetTitleColour(wx.BLACK)
# Leave the message font as default
tipballoon.SetMessageFont()
# Set the message (tip) foreground colour
tipballoon.SetMessageColour(wx.LIGHT_GREY)
# Set the start delay for the BalloonTip
tipballoon.SetStartDelay(1000)
# Set the time after which the BalloonTip is destroyed
tipballoon.SetEndDelay(3000)
# our normal wxApp-derived class, as usual
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = MyFrame(None)
app.SetTopWindow(frame)
frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()
This code snippet can be downloaded, see this example script.
Note
Some of the AGW snippets of code in the documentation use images and external files (to create bitmaps or access external data). As these files are not provided in these snippets, you should make the approriate modifications to the code to actually run it.
Window Styles¶This class supports the following window styles:
| Window Styles | Hex Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BT_ROUNDED | 0x1 | BalloonTip will have a rounded rectangular shape. |
| BT_RECTANGLE | 0x2 | BalloonTip will have a rectangular shape. |
| BT_LEAVE | 0x3 | BalloonTip will be destroyed when the user moves the mouse outside the target window. |
| BT_CLICK | 0x4 | BalloonTip will be destroyed when the user click on BalloonTip. |
| BT_BUTTON | 0x5 | BalloonTip will be destroyed when the user click on the close button. |
License And Version¶BalloonTip is distributed under the wxPython license.
Latest revision: Andrea Gavana @ 17 Aug 2011, 15.00 GMT
Version 0.2
Module author: Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana@gmail.com>
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