<viztip>.ToolTip

Creates a tooltip object

<viztip>.ToolTip(
start = True
delay = 0.5
track = True
textName = 'tooltip'
draworder = 9

)

start = True

Turns the tooltip on or off.

delay = 0.5

Sets the delay time for the tooltip to appear.

track = True

Sets whether the tooltip will track the mouse position.

textName = 'tooltip'

Sets name of variable that will be used to retrieve tooltip text from objects.

draworder = 9

Remarks

The viztip module allows you to assign a tooltip attribute to any node object that contains the tooltip text. Once you create an instance of the viztip.ToolTip object it will automatically display an on-screen tooltip when the mouse is over the node.

Return Value

ToolTip object

Example

import viz
viz.go()

viz.add('tut_ground.wrl')

#Create models with tooltip text
ball1 = viz.add('ball.wrl',pos=(-2,1,5))
ball1.tooltip = 'Ball 1'

ball2 = viz.add('ball.wrl',pos=(0,1,5))
ball2.tooltip = 'Ball 2'

ball3 = viz.add('ball.wrl',pos=(2,1,5))
ball3.tooltip = 'Ball 3'

#Create a tool tip object
import viztip
tip = viztip.ToolTip()