# Turn off tooltips

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-tooltips/2074>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-tooltips/2074 "2010-07-23T20:00:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-tooltips/2074/1 "2010-07-23T20:00:58Z")

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I’m using tooltips to display help on each control in a new system. These tooltips can be quite big, so it would be nice once each user gets used to the system if they could turn them off with a menu option.

Is it possible to turn off tooltips system-wide?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-tooltips/2074/2 "2010-07-23T22:28:01Z")

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Sure, in scripting you can do the following:`from javax.swing import ToolTipManager
ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setEnabled(0)` Turn it off by using a value of 0 and on with a value of 1.

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-tooltips/2074/3 "2010-07-24T09:58:33Z")

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Thanks Travis, that worked perfectly. The code I finally used to toggle tooltips on and off was as follows:`from javax.swing import ToolTipManager
if ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().isEnabled():
	ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setEnabled(0)
else:
	ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setEnabled(1)
`