Strange behavior when tooltip msg contains "CSC", "CCC", "CJ", etc.

[ethical-haquer]

I'm currently using tkinter-tooltip in an app I made, Thor GUI. I have multiple tkinter entries that are almost identical: "BL", "AP", "CP", "CSC", and "USERDATA". The CSC Entry's tooltip has always looked like this, split on two lines: Whereas all the other ones look like this: The length of the message isn't causing it: It turns out the "CSC" part of the tooltip msg is actually causing it. The issue occurs with certain phrases such as: "CAAAA", "CJ", or "CCC", but doesn't occur with "CA", "CV", or "CC". Aside from being annoying in this particular use case, it's just a weird issue. I'd be interested to know what's causing it though. :rofl:

[gnikit]

Can you post a minimal example that reproduces this behaviour and I will have a look.

[ethical-haquer]

Can you post a minimal example that reproduces this behavior and I will have a look.

Thanks for replying! Will do.

[ethical-haquer]

Can you post a minimal example that reproduces this behaviour and I will have a look.

Here you go:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from tktooltip import ToolTip
import typing as typ

tooltip_list = [
        ('BL_Entry', "Drag and drop a BL file here, or paste it's path"),
        ('AP_Entry', "Drag and drop an AP file here, or paste it's path"),
        ('CP_Entry', "Drag and drop a CP file here, or paste it's path"),
        ('CSC_Entry', "Drag and drop a CSC file here, or paste it's path"),
        ('USERDATA_Entry', "Drag and drop a USERDATA file here, or paste it's path")
    ]

class Entry():
    def __init__(self, name: str, master: ttk.Frame,
        state: str = 'normal', 
        column: int = 0,
        row: int = 0,
        sticky: str = 'we',
        padx: int = 5,
        pady: int = 5, 
        columnspan: int = 1):

        self.name = name + '_Entry'
        self.master = master
        self.state = state
        self.column = column
        self.row = row
        self.sticky = sticky
        self.padx = padx
        self.pady = pady
        self.columnspan = columnspan
        self.tooltip_delay = 0.25
        self.entry = ttk.Entry(self.master, state=self.state)
        self.entry.grid(column=self.column, row=self.row, columnspan=self.columnspan, sticky=self.sticky, padx=self.padx, pady=self.pady)
        self.create_tooltip(tooltip_list)

    def create_tooltip(self, tooltip_list: typ.Optional[typ.List[typ.Tuple[str, str]]] = None):
        for tooltip_widget, msg in tooltip_list:
            if tooltip_widget == self.name:
                ToolTip(self.entry, msg=msg, delay=self.tooltip_delay)

    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return getattr(self.entry, attr)

window = tk.Tk(className='Tooltip Demo')
window.title('Tooltip Demo')
window.geometry('200x100')

# Creates the Odin archive Entries
BL_Entry = Entry('BL', window, 'normal', 0, 0, 'we', 5, 0, 3)
AP_Entry = Entry('AP', window, 'normal', 0, 1, 'we', 5, 0, 3)
CP_Entry = Entry('CP', window, 'normal', 0, 1, 'we', 5, 0, 3)
CSC_Entry = Entry('CSC', window, 'normal', 0, 3, 'we', 5, 0, 3)
USERDATA_Entry = Entry('USERDATA', window, 'normal', 0, 4, 'we', 5, 0, 3)

window.mainloop()

[gnikit]

By default the Tooltip uses an aspect ratio for its tk.Message box of 1000, that means the widget will be 10 times as wide as it is tall, but aspect ratio is not the most robust way to set your width. If you want a specific width you can set it explicitly in the tooltip by passing kwargs

ToolTip(self.entry, msg=msg, width=len(msg) * 10)