Re: Two GtkTooltips questions...

[Martyn Russell <martyn 2 russell bt com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 18:43, Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
> Firstly, does anyone know when GtkTooltips is supposed to start supporting marked up text?  I added a patch 
> to my own version of the widget that checks for a leading <markup> at the start of the text, and takes it 
> from there.  But my version is probably a little behind the "official" GtkTooltips widget by now.

Not sure if there are any future plans, but currently it is not
supported.  Gtk 2.5.x might have plans for it?

> Secondly, I've got a tooltip that I need to update on a per-second basis, and is fairly involved to do so.  
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good way to make it update only while the tooltip is visible.

I just noticed that Gnome System Monitor does this (the applet at
least).  Check out the code, it might help you.

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Regards,
Martyn