Adding balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?

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Hi,

I’m trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.

Googling brought me to http://wiki.wxpython.org/BalloonTip, but the examples referred to there are in the non-existent page (http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).

Do any of you have a code snippet demonstrating how to add balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?

Thanks,

Ron.

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Hi,

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.

Googling brought me to BalloonTip - wxPyWiki, but the
examples referred to there are in the non-existent page
(http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).

Sorry, the Wiki still points to my old web page... try here:

http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/BalloonTip.html

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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Ron,

Hi,
I'm trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.
Googling brought me to BalloonTip - wxPyWiki, but the examples referred to there are in the non-existent page (http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).
Do any of you have a code snippet demonstrating how to add balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?
Thanks,
Ron.

Looks like that's an old link. Hopefully Andrea will edit that page...otherwise, I'll have to try to remember how to do it. In the mean time, try going here instead: http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/BalloonTip.html

Mike

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Hi,

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Andrea Gavana wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.

Googling brought me to BalloonTip - wxPyWiki, but the
examples referred to there are in the non-existent page
(http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).

Sorry, the Wiki still points to my old web page... try here:

http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/BalloonTip.html

Or wait a couple of days, I am going to release a bunch of new custom
widgets, in which you may find what you are looking for :smiley:

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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From: Andrea Gavana [mailto:andrea.gavana@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 17:01
To: wxpython-users@lists.wxwidgets.org
Subject: Re: [wxpython-users] Adding balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?

Hi,
[Barak, Ron] Hi Andrea,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,

I’m trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.

Googling brought me to http://wiki.wxpython.org/BalloonTip , but the
examples referred to there are in the non-existent page
(http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).

Sorry, the Wiki still points to my old web page… try here:

http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/BalloonTip.html
[Barak, Ron] Could it be that the software there (http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/Zipped/BalloonTip.zip ) is not debugged ?

When I try to run the BalloonTipDemo.py demo, I get:

$ python tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py”, line 350, in
frame = DemoFrame(None, -1, “Balloon Tip Demo”, size=(600,400))
File “tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py”, line 132, in init
controls.append(tbicon)
AttributeError: ‘WindowList’ object has no attribute ‘append’

And indeed:

type(controls)== <class ‘wx._core.WindowList’> ;

dir(controls)== [‘class’, ‘contains’, ‘del’, ‘delattr’, ‘dict’, ‘doc’, ‘getattribute’, ‘getitem’, ‘hash’, ‘init’, ‘iter’, ‘len’, ‘module’, ‘new’, ‘reduce’, ‘reduce_ex’, ‘repr’, ‘setattr’, ‘str’, ‘swig_destroy’, ‘weakref’, ‘index’, ‘this’, ‘thisown’]

Bye,
Ron.

Andrea.

“Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality.”
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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Hi Ron,

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,
[Barak, Ron] Hi Andrea,

When I try to run the BalloonTipDemo.py demo, I get:

$ python tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 350, in <module>
    frame = DemoFrame(None, -1, "Balloon Tip Demo", size=(600,400))
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 132, in __init__
    controls.append(tbicon)
AttributeError: 'WindowList' object has no attribute 'append'

And indeed:

type(controls)== <class 'wx._core.WindowList'> ;

dir(controls)== ['__class__', '__contains__', '__del__', '__delattr__',
'__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__iter__', '__len__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__swig_destroy__',
'__weakref__', 'index', 'this', 'thisown']

Uhm, it's been a while since I have used (and checked) BalloonTip,
something has changed in wxPython since then... I'll fix this bug
today and I'll let you know.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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Hi Ron,

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Andrea Gavana wrote:

Hi Ron,

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,
[Barak, Ron] Hi Andrea,

When I try to run the BalloonTipDemo.py demo, I get:

$ python tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 350, in <module>
    frame = DemoFrame(None, -1, "Balloon Tip Demo", size=(600,400))
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 132, in __init__
    controls.append(tbicon)
AttributeError: 'WindowList' object has no attribute 'append'

And indeed:

type(controls)== <class 'wx._core.WindowList'> ;

dir(controls)== ['__class__', '__contains__', '__del__', '__delattr__',
'__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__iter__', '__len__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', '__swig_destroy__',
'__weakref__', 'index', 'this', 'thisown']

Uhm, it's been a while since I have used (and checked) BalloonTip,
something has changed in wxPython since then... I'll fix this bug
today and I'll let you know.

Ok, it was just a small issue... GetChildren() previously returned a
list of controls (a long time ago), while now it returns a WindowList.
It's fixed, just in case you wish to try it again.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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Thanks Andrea: the demo works like a charm.
I noticed that it does not demo how to implement tooltips on a grid.
Do you - by chance - have a code snipped demonstrating how to use BalloonTip for a grid column/cell ?
Bye,
Ron.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Gavana [mailto:andrea.gavana@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:10
To: Barak, Ron
Subject: Re: [wxpython-users] Adding balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?

Hi Ron,

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Andrea Gavana wrote:

Hi Ron,

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Barak, Ron wrote:

Hi,
[Barak, Ron] Hi Andrea,

When I try to run the BalloonTipDemo.py demo, I get:

$ python tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 350, in <module>
    frame = DemoFrame(None, -1, "Balloon Tip Demo", size=(600,400))
  File "tooltip/BalloonTipDemo.py", line 132, in __init__
    controls.append(tbicon)
AttributeError: 'WindowList' object has no attribute 'append'

And indeed:

type(controls)== <class 'wx._core.WindowList'> ;

dir(controls)== ['__class__', '__contains__', '__del__',
'__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__',
'__getitem__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__len__',
'__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__',
'__setattr__', '__str__', '__swig_destroy__', '__weakref__', 'index',
'this', 'thisown']

Uhm, it's been a while since I have used (and checked) BalloonTip,
something has changed in wxPython since then... I'll fix this bug
today and I'll let you know.

Ok, it was just a small issue... GetChildren() previously returned a list of controls (a long time ago), while now it returns a WindowList.
It's fixed, just in case you wish to try it again.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

9

Hi Ron,

Thanks Andrea: the demo works like a charm.
I noticed that it does not demo how to implement tooltips on a grid.
Do you - by chance - have a code snipped demonstrating how to use BalloonTip for a grid column/cell ?

I have never tried with a grid, but in theory it should work... You
build your BalloonTip normally, and then call SetTarget on the grid
window:

balloonTip.SetTarget(yourGrid.GetGridWindow())

That should do...

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Barak, Ron wrote:

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Ron,

Hi,
I'm trying to implement ToolTips for a grid column.
Googling brought me to BalloonTip - wxPyWiki, but the examples referred to there are in the non-existent page (http://jump.xoom.alice.it/jump.htm).
Do any of you have a code snippet demonstrating how to add balloon tooltips to a grid column/cell ?
Thanks,
Ron.

After re-reading this, I realized that I already do this in one of my applications using the default tooltips. In your application's __init__, you'll need to initialize your tooltip variable to an empty string:

self.tooltip = ""

Then to bind to the column area, do this:

self.myGrid.GetGridColLabelWindow().Bind(wx.EVT_MOTION, self.onMouseOver)

Finally, in my MouseOver event, I do something like this:

<code>

def onMouseOver(self, event):
        '''
        When the mouse is hovered over certain columns, a tooltip will be
        displayed to give the user more information about what data should
        go into that specific column
        '''
        pos = event.GetX()

        if pos > 130 and pos < 180:
            if self.tooltip != 'Regular Hours':
                self.sheet.GetGridColLabelWindow().SetToolTipString('Regular Hours')
                self.tooltip = 'Regular Hours' elif pos > 180 and pos < 230:
            if self.tooltip != 'Overtime Hours':
                self.sheet.GetGridColLabelWindow().SetToolTipString('Overtime Hours')
                self.tooltip = 'Overtime Hours' else:
            if self.tooltip != '':
                self.sheet.GetGridColLabelWindow().SetToolTipString('')
                self.tooltip = ''
        event.Skip()

</code>

You'll need to figure out the widths of your own columns yourself and change the numbers in the "if" statements accordingly, of course. I hope that helps!

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