ToolTips in a ToolBar are strange

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Wed Sep 6 08:14:27 PDT 2006


bditzler at swfla.rr.com wrote:
> I am a new user of wxPython and I think it is great, but I just put a
> toolbar in my first real program and I want tooltips so I put then in
> and they work, except I don't understand why they work the way they do.
> To get the tooltip to show I need to click on the tool bar or a control
> ( button in my case) in the tool bar before they show up. To me it is to
> late to see the tool tip after you click the button when you need it is
> before. I checked another program that I saw a posting for that said
> tool tips where working fine and it worked the same way. Am I missing
> something?

Which platform are you on?  Which version of wxPython?  Does the toolbar 
sample in the demo have the same problem?


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Robin Dunn
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