Can I bind a tixBalloon Widget to a Text widget tag?

I am wanting to mimic the behavior of the 'abbr' tag of HTML in a tkinter Text widget. The Tix Balloon widget looks like it would be a p开发者_JAVA技巧erfect fit, but I can't figure out how to bind it to a text tag instead of a whole widget. Any suggestions welcome.

you might be better off writing your own balloon widget in plain Tkinter

see http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/ToolTip for an example

re: binding to a tag in a text widget: Pmw balloon can do it