Standard pyqt tooltips don't support other content than text, but we can add support.
This would mean we need to overwrite every class of things that have tooltips with our own subclass (e.g. ABPushButton instead of QPushbutton). We can then add a custom setGIFToolTip() function in addition to the setToolTip() for example.
The idea is that we can make much more useful in-UI guidance for users if we add video content in addition to the text tooltips that we currently have ("a picture is worth a thousand words", so GIFs should be able to explain quite a lot).
Some example code below we can probably adapt
class ToolTipAnimation(QtWidgets.QLabel):
def __init__(self, parent, file, width=None, height=None):
super().__init__(parent, flags=QtCore.Qt.ToolTip)
self.setMouseTracking(True)
self._file = file
self._width = width
self._height = height
self._shown = False
self.showTimer = QtCore.QTimer(interval=100, singleShot=True)
QtWidgets.QApplication.instance().installEventFilter(self)
def load(self):
movie = QtGui.QMovie(self._file)
if self._width and not self._height:
self._height = self._width
if self._width and self._height:
size = QtCore.QSize(self._width, self._height)
movie.setScaledSize(size)
else:
size = QtCore.QSize()
for f in range(movie.frameCount()):
movie.jumpToFrame(f)
size = size.expandedTo(movie.currentImage().size())
self.setFixedSize(size)
self.setMovie(movie)
self._shown = True
def show(self, pos=None):
if not self._shown:
self.load()
if pos is None:
pos = QtGui.QCursor.pos()
for screen in QtWidgets.QApplication.screens():
if pos in screen.availableGeometry():
screen = screen.availableGeometry()
pos += QtCore.QPoint(2, 16)
if pos.x() < screen.x():
pos.setX(screen.x())
elif pos.x() + self.width() > screen.right():
pos.setX(screen.right() - self.width())
if pos.y() < screen.y():
pos.setY(screen.y())
elif pos.y() + self.height() > screen.bottom():
pos.setY(screen.bottom() - self.height())
break
self.move(pos)
super().show()
self.movie().start()
class ButtonWithGifTooltip(QPushButton):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.tooltip = ToolTipAnimation(self, 'path_to_your_gif.gif')
def enterEvent(self, event):
self.tooltip.show(self.mapToGlobal(self.rect().bottomRight()))
def leaveEvent(self, event):
self.tooltip.hide()
Feature request
Standard pyqt tooltips don't support other content than text, but we can add support. This would mean we need to overwrite every class of things that have tooltips with our own subclass (e.g.
ABPushButtoninstead ofQPushbutton). We can then add a customsetGIFToolTip()function in addition to thesetToolTip()for example.The idea is that we can make much more useful in-UI guidance for users if we add video content in addition to the text tooltips that we currently have ("a picture is worth a thousand words", so GIFs should be able to explain quite a lot).
Some example code below we can probably adapt