On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 5:50 AM kiteh <kiteh.0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I chanced across animBot, a maya plugin/ tooling where it contains several
> nice features for animation related workflows.
> Not here to promote the tool but there is a feature that I am interested
> but could not find much information. Hoping someone here could shed some
> light.
>
> In this link <http://www.animbot.ca/tooltips/#play_keys>, all these
> 'images' as you see in the link appears as tooltip whenever the mouse
> cursor is hover over a button.
> My question here is how do I implement it?
>
> So far, my only experience with the use of tooltips is through the use of
> text, eg.
> self.my_button("this is my button tooltip")
>
> If I were to try and implement something similar as above, do I need to
> create a template or something, and insert that as a tooltip?
>

Check this out:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtooltip.html

Tooltips (in Qt) can be rich text. So that means you can design your
tooltip as a snippet of html .
If you want to access resource from your qrc, like icons, you can use
notation like ":/myimage.png"


> Additionally, is it possible to put this into/ as part of the annotation
> for the tool icons in maya shelves?
>
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