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NAME

       tooltip - Tooltip management

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require msgcat  1.3

       package require tooltip  ?1.4.4?

       ::tooltip::tooltip command ?options?

       ::tooltip::tooltip pathName ?option arg? message

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DESCRIPTION

       This  package  provides tooltips, small text messages that can be displayed when the mouse
       hovers over a widget, menu item, canvas item, listbox item or text widget tag.

COMMANDS

       ::tooltip::tooltip command ?options?
              Manage the tooltip package using the following subcommands.

              clear index
                     Prevents the specified widgets from showing  tooltips.  pattern  is  a  glob
                     pattern and defaults to matching all widgets.

              delay ?millisecs?
                     Query  or  set  the  hover delay. This is the interval that the pointer must
                     remain over the widget  before  the  tooltip  is  displayed.  The  delay  is
                     specified  in  milliseconds and must be greater than 50ms.  With no argument
                     the current delay is returned.

              fade ?boolean?
                     Enable or disable fading of the tooltip.  The is enabled by default on Win32
                     and Aqua.  The tooltip will fade away on Leave events instead disappearing.

              disable

              off    Disable all tooltips

              enable

              on     Enables tooltips for defined widgets.

       ::tooltip::tooltip pathName ?option arg? message
              This  command  arranges  for  widget  pathName  to  display  a tooltip with message
              message.  The tooltip uses a late-binding msgcat call on the passed in  message  to
              allow  for  on-the-fly language changes in an application.  If the widget specified
              is a menu, canvas or text widget then  additional  options  are  used  to  tie  the
              tooltip to specific menu entries, canvas items or text tags.

              -index index
                     This option is used to set a tooltip on a menu item. The index may be either
                     the entry index or the entry label. The widget must be a menu widget but the
                     entries do not have to exists when the tooltip is set.

              -items name
                     This  option  is  used  to set a tooltip for canvas widget or listbox items.
                     For the canvas widget, the item must already be present in the canvas widget
                     and  will  be  found  with  a  find withtag lookup.  For listbox widgets the
                     item(s) may be created later but the programmer is responsible for  managing
                     the  link  between  the listbox item index and the corresponding tooltip. If
                     the listbox items are re-ordered, the tooltips will need amending.

                     If the widget is not a canvas or listbox then an error is raised.

              -tag name
                     The -tag option can be used to set a tooltip for a text widget tag. The  tag
                     should  already  be  present when this command is called or an error will be
                     returned. The widget must also be a text widget.

EXAMPLE

              # Demonstrate widget tooltip
              package require tooltip
              pack [label .l -text "label"]
              tooltip::tooltip .l "This is a label widget"

              # Demonstrate menu tooltip
              package require tooltip
              . configure -menu [menu .menu]
              .menu add cascade -label Test -menu [menu .menu.test -tearoff 0]
              .menu.test add command -label Tooltip
              tooltip::tooltip .menu.test -index 0 "This is a menu tooltip"

              # Demonstrate canvas item tooltip
              package require tooltip
              pack [canvas .c]
              set item [.c create rectangle 10 10 80 80]
              tooltip::tooltip .c -item $item "Canvas item tooltip"

              # Demonstrate listbox item tooltip
              package require tooltip
              pack [listbox .lb]
              .lb insert 0 "item one"
              tooltip::tooltip .lb -item 0 "Listbox item tooltip"

              # Demonstrate text tag tooltip
              package require tooltip
              pack [text .txt]
              .txt tag configure TIP-1 -underline 1
              tooltip::tooltip .txt -tag TIP-1 "tooltip one text"
              .txt insert end "An example of a " {} "tooltip" TIP-1 " tag.\n" {}

KEYWORDS

       balloon, help, hover, tooltip

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996-2008, Jeffrey Hobbs