Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:47 +0200, Yann Renard wrote:
> I have a problem with tooltips. I have a drawing aread which I use to
> draw several things. I would like to provide tooltips on this drawing
> area but the tooltip content should vary according to what is drawn
> under the cursor and where the cursor is placed. Problem is I have a
> single GtkWidget... GtkTipsQuery does not seem to fit my needs either.
> What should be used in such context ?

I'm not sure what *should* be used before new tooltip code hits GTK+,
but I've always just re-implemented tooltips myself.  Creating a popup
window with a widget name of "gtk-tooltips" gives you access to the
style, and you just have to play with spacings and drawing.

- Michael

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