Re: GtkComboBox and Tooltips

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:42 +0100, Alexandru Csete wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to use the new GtkCombox widget in Gtk+ 2.4 but I am not able
> to use tooltips with it. I use the following code:
>
>
>     combo = gtk_combo_box_new_text ();
>
>     gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (combo), _("Item One"));
>     gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (combo), _("Item Two"));
>
>     tips = gtk_tooltips_new ();
>     gtk_tooltips_set_tip (tips, combo, _("Tooltips"), NULL);
>
>
> Later on, I connect a callback to the "changed" signal and the resulting
> combo box works fine except that the tooltips never show up. I didn't used
> to have problems with 
>
> Any idea what is wrong? Do I have to set the tooltips for a child widget?
> Thanks

It is not really possible to put tooltips on combo boxes currently. 
If you are curious, you can look at what I did to make a tooltip appear
for the filter combobox in the file chooser. But it doesn't work for 
keyboard activation of tooltips.

Matthias