PyQt5 – Set tool tip to Status Bar

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In this article we will see how we can set tool tip to a status bar. The tooltip or infotip or a hint is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a pointer. The user hovers the pointer over an item, without clicking it, and a tooltip may appear—a small “hover box” with information about the item being hovered over.

In order to set this we will use setToolTip method with status bar object.

Syntax : self.statusBar().setToolTip(data)

Argument : It takes string as argument.

Action performed : It sets tool tip to status bar.

Code :

from PyQt5.QtCore import * 
from PyQt5.QtGui import * 
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * 
import sys 
  
  
class Window(QMainWindow): 
    def __init__(self): 
        super().__init__() 
  
        # set the title 
        self.setWindowTitle("Python") 
  
        # setting  the geometry of window 
        self.setGeometry(60, 60, 600, 400) 
  
        # setting status bar message 
        self.statusBar().showMessage("This is status bar") 
  
        # setting  border 
        self.statusBar().setStyleSheet("border :3px solid black;") 
  
        # setting tool tip for status bar 
        self.statusBar().setToolTip("Hello ! from status bar") 
  
        # creating a label widget 
        self.label_1 = QLabel("status bar", self) 
  
        # moving position 
        self.label_1.move(100, 100) 
  
        # setting up the border 
        self.label_1.setStyleSheet("border :1px solid blue;") 
  
        # resizing label 
        self.label_1.adjustSize() 
  
        # show all the widgets 
        self.show() 
  
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 