# Copyright (c) 2006, Daniel J. Popowich # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person # obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files # (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, # including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, # publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, # and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, # subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be # included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND # NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN # ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Send bug reports and contributions to: # # dpopowich AT astro dot umass dot edu # ''' TreeViewTooltips.py Provides TreeViewTooltips, a class which presents tooltips for cells, columns and rows in a gtk.TreeView. ------------------------------------------------------------ This file includes a demo. Just execute the file: python TreeViewTooltips.py ------------------------------------------------------------ To use, first subclass TreeViewTooltips and implement the get_tooltip() method; see below. Then add any number of gtk.TreeVew widgets to a TreeViewTooltips instance by calling the add_view() method. Overview of the steps: # 1. subclass TreeViewTooltips class MyTooltips(TreeViewTooltips): # 2. overriding get_tooltip() def get_tooltip(...): ... # 3. create an instance mytips = MyTooltips() # 4. Build up your gtk.TreeView. myview = gtk.TreeView() ...# create columns, set the model, etc. # 5. Add the view to the tooltips mytips.add_view(myview) How it works: the add_view() method connects the TreeView to the "motion-notify" event with the callback set to a private method. Whenever the mouse moves across the TreeView the callback will call get_tooltip() with the following arguments: get_tooltip(view, column, path) where, view: the gtk.TreeView instance. column: the gtk.TreeViewColumn instance that the mouse is currently over. path: the path to the row that the mouse is currently over. Based on whether or not column and path are checked for specific values, get_tooltip can return tooltips for a cell, column, row or the whole view: Column Checked Path Checked Tooltip For... Y Y cell Y N column N Y row N N view get_tooltip() should return None if no tooltip should be displayed. Otherwise the return value will be coerced to a string (with the str() builtin) and stripped; if non-empty, the result will be displayed as the tooltip. By default, the tooltip popup window will be displayed centered and just below the pointer and will remain shown until the pointer leaves the cell (or column, or row, or view, depending on how get_tooltip() is implemented). ''' import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0') import gtk import gtk.gdk import gobject if gtk.gtk_version < (2, 8): import warnings msg = ('''This module was developed and tested with version 2.8.18 of gtk. You are using version %d.%d.%d. Your milage may vary.''' % gtk.gtk_version) warnings.warn(msg) # major, minor, patch version = 1, 0, 0 class TreeViewTooltips: def __init__(self): ''' Initialize the tooltip. After initialization there are two attributes available for advanced control: window: the popup window that holds the tooltip text, an instance of gtk.Window. label: a gtk.Label that is packed into the window. The tooltip text is set in the label with the set_label() method, so the text can be plain or markup text. Be default, the tooltip is enabled. See the enabled/disabled methods. ''' # create the window self.window = window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_POPUP) window.set_name('gtk-tooltips') window.set_resizable(False) window.set_border_width(4) window.set_app_paintable(True) window.connect("expose-event", self.__on_expose_event) # create the label self.label = label = gtk.Label() label.set_line_wrap(True) label.set_alignment(0.5, 0.5) label.set_use_markup(True) label.show() window.add(label) # by default, the tooltip is enabled self.__enabled = True # saves the current cell self.__save = None # the timer id for the next tooltip to be shown self.__next = None # flag on whether the tooltip window is shown self.__shown = False def enable(self): 'Enable the tooltip' self.__enabled = True def disable(self): 'Disable the tooltip' self.__enabled = False def __show(self, tooltip, x, y): '''show the tooltip popup with the text/markup given by tooltip. tooltip: the text/markup for the tooltip. x, y: the coord. (root window based) of the pointer. ''' window = self.window # set label self.label.set_label(tooltip) # resize window w, h = window.size_request() # move the window window.move(*self.location(x,y,w,h)) # show it window.show() self.__shown = True def __hide(self): 'hide the tooltip' self.__queue_next() self.window.hide() self.__shown = False def __leave_handler(self, view, event): 'when the pointer leaves the view, hide the tooltip' self.__hide() def __motion_handler(self, view, event): 'As the pointer moves across the view, show a tooltip.' path = view.get_path_at_pos(int(event.x), int(event.y)) if self.__enabled and path: path, col, x, y = path tooltip = self.get_tooltip(view, col, path) if tooltip is not None: tooltip = str(tooltip).strip() if tooltip: self.__queue_next((path, col), tooltip, int(event.x_root), int(event.y_root)) return self.__hide() def __queue_next(self, *args): 'queue next request to show a tooltip' # if args is non-empty it means a request was made to show a # tooltip. if empty, no request is being made, but any # pending requests should be cancelled anyway. cell = None # if called with args, break them out if args: cell, tooltip, x, y = args # if it's the same cell as previously shown, just return if self.__save == cell: return # if we have something queued up, cancel it if self.__next: gobject.source_remove(self.__next) self.__next = None # if there was a request... if cell: # if the tooltip is already shown, show the new one # immediately if self.__shown: self.__show(tooltip, x, y) # else queue it up in 1/2 second else: self.__next = gobject.timeout_add(500, self.__show, tooltip, x, y) # save this cell self.__save = cell def __on_expose_event(self, window, event): # this magic is required so the window appears with a 1-pixel # black border (default gtk Style). This code is a # transliteration of the C implementation of gtk.Tooltips. w, h = window.size_request() window.style.paint_flat_box(window.window, gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.SHADOW_OUT, None, window, 'tooltip', 0, 0, w, h) def location(self, x, y, w, h): '''Given the x,y coordinates of the pointer and the width and height (w,h) demensions of the tooltip window, return the x, y coordinates of the tooltip window. The default location is to center the window on the pointer and 4 pixels below it. ''' return x - w/2, y + 4 def add_view(self, view): 'add a gtk.TreeView to the tooltip' assert isinstance(view, gtk.TreeView), \ ('This handler should only be connected to ' 'instances of gtk.TreeView') view.connect("motion-notify-event", self.__motion_handler) view.connect("leave-notify-event", self.__leave_handler) def get_tooltip(self, view, column, path): 'See the module doc string for a description of this method' raise NotImplemented('Subclass must implement get_tooltip()') if __name__ == '__main__': ############################################################ # DEMO ############################################################ # First, subclass TreeViewTooltips class DemoTips(TreeViewTooltips): def __init__(self, customer_column): # customer_column is an instance of gtk.TreeViewColumn and # is being used in the gtk.TreeView to show customer names. self.cust_col = customer_column # call base class init TreeViewTooltips.__init__(self) def get_tooltip(self, view, column, path): # we have a two column view: customer, phone; we'll make # tooltips cell-based for the customer column, but generic # column-based for the phone column. # customer if column is self.cust_col: # By checking both column and path we have a # cell-based tooltip. model = view.get_model() customer = model[path][2] return '%s %s\n%s' % (customer.fname, customer.lname, customer.notes) # phone else: return ('Generic Column Tooltip\n' 'Unless otherwise noted, all\narea codes are 888') def XX_location(self, x, y, w, h): # rename me to "location" so I override the base class # method. This will demonstrate being able to change # where the tooltip window popups, relative to the # pointer. # this will place the tooltip above and to the right return x + 10, y - (h + 10) # Here's our customer class Customer: def __init__(self, fname, lname, phone, notes): self.fname = fname self.lname = lname self.phone = phone self.notes = notes # create a bunch of customers customers = [] for fname, lname, phone, notes in [ ('Joe', 'Schmoe', '555-1212', 'Likes to Morris dance.'), ('Jane', 'Doe', '555-2323', 'Wonders what the hell\nMorris dancing is.'), ('Phred', 'Phantastic', '900-555-1212', 'Dreams of Betty.'), ('Betty', 'Boop', '555-3434', 'Dreams in b&w.'), ('Red Sox', 'Fan', '555-4545', "Still livin' 2004!\nEspecially after 2006.")]: customers.append(Customer(fname, lname, phone, notes)) # Build our model and view model = gtk.ListStore(str, str, object) for c in customers: model.append(['%s %s' % (c.fname, c.lname), c.phone, c]) view = gtk.TreeView(model) view.get_selection().set_mode(gtk.SELECTION_NONE) # two columns, name and phone cell = gtk.CellRendererText() cell.set_property('xpad', 20) namecol = gtk.TreeViewColumn('Customer Name', cell, text=0) namecol.set_min_width(200) view.append_column(namecol) cell = gtk.CellRendererText() phonecol = gtk.TreeViewColumn('Phone', cell, text=1) view.append_column(phonecol) # finally, connect the tooltip, specifying the name column as the # column we want the tooltip to popup over. tips = DemoTips(namecol) tips.add_view(view) # We're going to demonstrate enable/disable. First we need a # callback function to connect to the toggled signal. def toggle(button): if button.get_active(): tips.disable() else: tips.enable() # create a checkbutton and connect our handler check = gtk.CheckButton('Check to disable view tooltips') check.connect('toggled', toggle) # a standard gtk.Tooltips to compare to tt = gtk.Tooltips() tt.set_tip(check, ('This is a standard gtk tooltip.\n' 'Compare me to the tooltips above.')) # create a VBox to pack the view and checkbutton vbox = gtk.VBox() vbox.pack_start(view) vbox.pack_start(check, False) vbox.show_all() # pack the vbox into a simple dialog and run it dialog = gtk.Dialog('TreeViewTooltips Demo') close = dialog.add_button(gtk.STOCK_CLOSE, gtk.RESPONSE_NONE) # add a tooltip for the close button tt.set_tip(close, 'Click to end the demo.') dialog.set_default_size(400,400) dialog.vbox.pack_start(vbox) dialog.run()