qsettooltip - assign tooltip text to widget

Name

qsettooltip — assign tooltip text to widget

Syntax

Description

The qsettooltip command assigns a tooltip to a widget. This is a floating piece of text that appears when the mouse hovers over the widget. The tooltip text usually gives a short description of the widgets functionality.

Arguments

widget

The widget to which the tool tip text will be associated. This can be any type of widget.

text

The tooltip text. This may be HTML formatted.

Examples

Ex.1: QToolTip

set w [qwidget ]
qsetwindowtitle "Tool tip"

# Create text editor and "Show Text" button.
set layout [qhboxlayout $w]
set label [qlabel "First Name :"]
qaddwidget $layout $label

set lineedit [qlineedit]
qaddwidget $layout $lineedit
qsettooltip $lineedit "The persons first name"

qshow $w

In the example above a tool tip is assigned to the name entry field.