Display tooltip on a disabled button

[Larry Martell]

Is there a way to display a tooltip on a disabled button? I am doing this:

btn.SetToolTip(wx.ToolTip("My hovercraft is full of eels'))

When the button is enable the tooltip is shown, but I would also like
to have to shown when the button is disabled. Is that possible.

This is on wx version 2.8.

[Nathan McCorkle]

I didn't like how ToolTip worked, SuperToolTip was the easiest to get working for me, though it doesn't look exactly 'native'. If you use it, make sure to manually indent like 319 in the source file, according to this bug report I made a few months back:

http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16421

[Larry Martell]

Does it display on a disabled button?  

[Bzzzz]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:40:53 -0500
Larry Martell <larry....@gmail.com> wrote:

> When the button is enable the tooltip is shown, but I would also like
> to have to shown when the button is disabled. Is that possible.
>
> This is on wx version 2.8.

Here (debian sid) with 2.8, it's working on a disabled stock button.

[Larry Martell]

That's very odd that I have a different behaviour. I assume you're
disabling the button with btn.Enable(False) ?

[Werner]

Maybe platform specific?

Werner

[Larry Martell]

I am on CentOS 5.8

[Werner]

Could it be the GTK version you use?

Just tried on Windows 8 with wxPython-Phoenix and tooltips are not shown
on stock button if it is disabled.

Werner

[Anders Munch]

Larry Martell:

> Is there a way to display a tooltip on a disabled button?

Place the button on a panel by itself, and set the tooltip on the panel as well.
No guarantees that this will work on all platforms, but I just tried it successfully on Win7 (msw 3.0.2 classic).

regards, Anders


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[Larry Martell]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Anders Munch <a...@flonidan.dk> wrote:
> Larry Martell:
>> Is there a way to display a tooltip on a disabled button?
>
> Place the button on a panel by itself, and set the tooltip on the panel as well.
> No guarantees that this will work on all platforms, but I just tried it successfully on Win7 (msw 3.0.2 classic).

Thanks, I'll give that a try.