tk2tip {tcltk2}R Documentation

Display and manage tooltips in tk widgets

Description

tk2tip provides a simple mechanism to display tooltips on tk widgets when the mouse hoover on top of them.

Usage

  tk2tip(widget, message)
  tk2killtip()

Arguments

widget The widget to which a tooltip is attached
message The message of the tooltip ("" to remove the tooltip)

Note

This implementation is done in pure tcl code

Author(s)

Philippe Grosjean

See Also

tk2widgets, tk2theme

Examples

  ## Not run: 
    ## These cannot be run by examples() but should be OK when pasted
    ## into an interactive R session with the tcltk package loaded

        tt2 <- tktoplevel()
    lb <- tk2label(tt2, text = "Move mouse over me, or over the button to see tooltip")
    tkgrid(lb)
    tk2tip(lb, "A tooltip for the label \ndisplayed on two lines")
    but <- tk2button(tt2, text = "OK", width = 10,
        command = function() tkdestroy(tt2))
    tkgrid(but)
    tk2tip(but, "Another tooltip for the button")
    #### TO DO: show the use of tk2killtip()!
  ## End(Not run)
[Package tcltk2 version 0.9-5 Index]