RE: Tooltips (or similar) on a drawing area?

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

Is it not possible to get the event for when the mouse moves over the widget
and set the tip that way? I dont know how you would show it at will tho?!

Regards, 

Martyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juha Nieminen [mailto:warp cs tut fi]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:06 AM
> To: martyn 2 russell bt com
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: RE: Tooltips (or similar) on a drawing area?
>
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
>
> > Im not completely sure if it will work in this case, but 
> you should be able
> > to do it similarly to how glade does it.  With glade they create a
> > GtkTooltips and set a tip for each object which is a child 
> of the window,
>
>   I know what GtkTooltips does. The problem is that I don't 
> want a tooltip
> for the whole drawing area, but several tooltips for 
> different parts of
> the drawing area. That is, when the mouse is over a circle 
> (or a square area
> around the circle) in the drawing area, it should popup a 
> tooltip with a
> text related to that circle. When the cursor is over another 
> circle (in
> the same drawing area), it should popup a tooltip with 
> another text (the one
> related to that circle in question).
>   If it's not possible with GtkTooltips, then I would like to 
> know an easy
> way of doing it by other means.
>
>                                                       - Warp