How to hover over a label to display text

LT-K101

Hi, Please I'm really struggling on how to hover over a label to display text. I have seen some tutorials on how to hover over a pushButton to change background color. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

JonB

@LT-K101
What do you actually mean by "hover over a label to display text."? You can just call QLabel::setToolTip("Some text") to display text when hovering.

LT-K101

@JonB I tried the code below and it returns an empty toolTip with no message.

self.ui.label_83.setToolTip("Name: Jane " )

What I actaully want to achieve is when I hover on a profile image the name of the person should be displayed from database. I can see the name from database with print(person[1]). However when I tried the syntax below I get an empty toolTip when I hover over the label containing the image. I think I might be doing something wrong.

self.ui.label_83.setToolTip(str(person[1]))

JonB

@LT-K101
Since there are many examples on the web of using setToolTip() on a QLabel I don't know what to say. If you leave your labels named label_83 it's hardly to easy to verify which one you are setting it on....

You can/must set the tooltip which comes from a database at the time the correct data is available. For your setToolTip(str(person[1])) I don't know when that is, but you do.

An alternative approach to set a dynamic tooltip, i.e. one whose text is not set/evaluated until the time the user hovers instead of in advance, is shown in https://stackoverflow.com/a/21869703, but they may require subclassing QLabel which you are probably not set up for. In any case it still uses QLabel::setToolTip().