Re: Balloon-help or callout window

[Darryl Luff <darryl snakegully nu>]

Daniel Godas wrote:

> given that you have the image you want to draw you can create a bitmap
> mask from it with gdk_pixbuf_render_threshold_alpha, then you can
> create a gdkwindow using the mask and draw on it. You cant draw
> outside drawables (thats why they are drawables cause you draw on
> them) but i think this effect is what you are looking for.
> If you what to make it chase the mouse cursor i ull have to set a
> timer that takes its position and moves the window
>
>  
Now that I think about it, the only non-window shaped thing I need to 
draw is a line from my help window to the widget I'm talking about, as 
at http://www.snakegully.nu/balloon.png. The actual help window can be a 
normal undecorated window, or a dialog