[Glade-users] Tooltips for GtkCheckButton

[damon helixcode com (Damon Chaplin)]

Graham Williams wrote:
> Perhaps I've missed an important point somewhere......
>
> Why can't a GtkCheckButton have a tooltip set by Glade?
>
> I select the check button in Glade but the Tooltip text entry under
> the Basic tab of the Properties editor for the widget is shaded out
> with an N/A.
>
> I can edit the XML to add a <tooltip> to it and generate the C code
> (for GNOME) and the tooltip works. Next time I load the XML into Glade
> the tooltip is shown when the mouse hovers over the check button but
> it does not appear in Properties->Basic->ToolTip and when the project
> is saved it is lost from the XML!

Tooltips only work for GTK+ widgets which have their own X window,
and GtkCheckButton & GtkRadioButton widgets normally do not.

However, they create their own InputOnly window and still get X events,
so tooltips do in fact still work. I'm not quite sure why they have to
be this way - it does over-complicate things.

Anyway, I've added a workaround to Glade so it will let you put tooltips
on GtkCheckButton & GtkRadioButton widgets in future.

Thanks for the report.

Damon