Changing Tooltips "On The Fly"

[jseymour LinxNet com (Jim Seymour)]

Hi All,

I want to do something perhaps a bit odd.  I'd like to be able to
change a tooltip's text "on the fly" in response to asynchronous and
irregular external events.

Now it seems that once a tooltip has been added to a widget, the only
thing you can get back via a query is a pointer to GtkTooltipsData via
gtk_tooltips_data_get().  The on-line docs don't *say* so, but I assume
that structures *tip_text member is g_malloc()'d.

So can I simply g_free() that pointer, g_malloc() a new one, and copy
in my new text?


Thanks,
Jim
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