PyQt5 – Radio button tooltip

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In this article we will see how we can set tool tip to the radio button. ToolTip is basically a message appear when we hover mouse over the radio button, tool tip gives the tip and help the user to understand better about the radio button.

In order to do set tool tip to the radio button we will use setToolTip method.

Syntax : radio_button.setToolTip(text)

Argument : It takes string as argument

Action performed : This will set the tool tip to the radio button

Below is the implementation –

# importing libraries 
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * 
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui 
from PyQt5.QtGui import * 
from PyQt5.QtCore import * 
import sys 
  
  
class Window(QMainWindow): 
  
    def __init__(self): 
        super().__init__() 
  
        # setting title 
        self.setWindowTitle("Python ") 
  
        # setting geometry 
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 600, 400) 
  
        # calling method 
        self.UiComponents() 
  
        # showing all the widgets 
        self.show() 
  
    # method for widgets 
    def UiComponents(self): 
        # creating a radio button 
        self.radio_button = QRadioButton("Radio button", self) 
  
        # setting geometry of radio button 
        self.radio_button.setGeometry(200, 150, 120, 40) 
  
        # setting tool tip 
        self.radio_button.setToolTip("Click to make it check") 
          
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 