Help System¶

Classes used to provide online-help for applications.

These classes provide online-help for your application, with three levels of detail:

Tool Tips and Status Bar message - flyweight help, extremely brief, entirely integrated in the user interface, requiring little or no user interaction to invoke.

What’s This? - lightweight, but can be a three-paragraph explanation.

Online Help - can encompass any amount of information, but is typically slower to call up, somewhat separated from the user’s work, and often users feel that using online help is a digression from their real task.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QToolTip

The QToolTip class provides tool tips (balloon help) for any widget.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QWhatsThis

The QWhatsThis class provides a simple description of any widget, i.e. answering the question “What’s This?”.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QStatusBar

The QStatusBar class provides a horizontal bar suitable for presenting status information.

PySide6.QtGui.QHelpEvent

The QHelpEvent class provides an event that is used to request helpful information about a particular point in a widget.

PySide6.QtGui.QStatusTipEvent

The QStatusTipEvent class provides an event that is used to show messages in a status bar.

PySide6.QtGui.QWhatsThisClickedEvent

The QWhatsThisClickedEvent class provides an event that can be used to handle hyperlinks in a “What’s This?” text.

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`PySide6.QtWidgets.QToolTip`	The QToolTip class provides tool tips (balloon help) for any widget.
`PySide6.QtWidgets.QWhatsThis`	The QWhatsThis class provides a simple description of any widget, i.e. answering the question “What’s This?”.
`PySide6.QtWidgets.QStatusBar`	The QStatusBar class provides a horizontal bar suitable for presenting status information.
`PySide6.QtGui.QHelpEvent`	The QHelpEvent class provides an event that is used to request helpful information about a particular point in a widget.
`PySide6.QtGui.QStatusTipEvent`	The QStatusTipEvent class provides an event that is used to show messages in a status bar.
`PySide6.QtGui.QWhatsThisClickedEvent`	The QWhatsThisClickedEvent class provides an event that can be used to handle hyperlinks in a “What’s This?” text.