[wxPython-users] Custom tooltip window

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Mon May 7 13:06:31 PDT 2007


Michael Butscher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to create (or has someone already done that) a custom 
> tooltip window which can be positioned freely and which has the special 
> properties of a tooltip (at least on Windows) that it
> 
> - doesn't take the focus from the currently focused window
> 
> - sends mouse events to the underlying window as if the tooltip doesn't 
> exist

wx.PopupWindow will get you part of the way there, all except the mouse 
pass-through.


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