How to turn off tooltips in wxpython

Question

I have tried:

wx.ToolTip.Enable(False)    
wx.ToolTip_Enable(False)    

and

wx.ToolTip.Enable(flag=False)    

none of theses instructions are rejected and yet none of them work
I'm using Linux Mint 17 wx.python 2.8.12.1 (gtk2-unicode) python 2.7

Answer 1

The answer in the end for individual tooltips was gloriously simple and yet took an age to find.
Set the tooltip with SetToolTipString("my Tool Tip") but remove it with SetToolTip(None) see below:
The global turning on and off of tooltips still seems to be controlled by your desktop environment.

import wx
class MyForm(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, wx.ID_ANY, "Toggle")
        self.panel = wx.Panel(self, wx.ID_ANY)
        self.dummy = wx.StaticText(self.panel, -1, "")
        self.cb1 = wx.CheckBox(self.panel, -1,"Choice 1", pos=(10,10))
        self.cb2 = wx.CheckBox(self.panel, -1,"Choice 2", pos=(10,40))
        self.cb1.Bind(wx.EVT_CHECKBOX, self.onToggle1)
        self.cb2.Bind(wx.EVT_CHECKBOX, self.onToggle2)
        self.cb1.SetToolTipString(wx.EmptyString)
        self.cb2.SetToolTipString(wx.EmptyString)
    #----------------------------------------------------------------------
    def onToggle1(self, event):
        if self.cb1.GetValue() == True:
            self.cb1.SetToolTipString("Check Box 1 is Checked")
        else:
            self.cb1.SetToolTip(None)

    def onToggle2(self, event):
        if self.cb2.GetValue() == True:
            self.cb2.SetToolTipString("Check Box 2 Is Checked")
        else:
            self.cb2.SetToolTip(None)

# Run the program
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = wx.App(False)
    frame = MyForm()
    frame.Show()
    app.MainLoop()

Answer 2

According to the wxpython docs, ToolTip.Enable seems to,

Enable or disable tooltips globally.

Note May not be supported on all platforms (eg. Cocoa).

Which I assume includes your platform... Instead, you may need to set the tooltips for the window itself. There isn't a ToolTop_Enable method I can see for the window but setting the tooltip to an empty string seems to do the trick for me,

import wx

app = wx.App()

frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, '')
frame.SetToolTip(wx.ToolTip(''))
frame.SetSize(wx.Size(300,250))
frame.Show()

app.MainLoop()

EDIT: Define a child tooltip class which can be enabled/disabled and defaults based on a global value.

import wx

EnableTooltips = False

class Tooltip(wx.ToolTip):

    '''A subclass of wx.ToolTip which can be disabled'''

    def __init__(self, string, Enable=EnableTooltips):
        self.tooltip_string = string
        self.TooltipsEnabled = Enable
        wx.ToolTip.__init__(self, string)
        self.Enable(Enable)

    def Enable(self, x):

        if x is True:
            self.SetTip(self.tooltip_string)
            self.TooltipsEnabled = True
        elif x is False:
            self.SetTip("")
            self.TooltipsEnabled = False         

app = wx.App()

frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, '')
tt = Tooltip('test')
frame.SetToolTip(tt)
frame.SetSize(wx.Size(300,250))

frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()

I'm not sure this will work dynamically (i.e. once you start the gui, the frame tooltips have been set and changing their value may not update).