Re: tooltips on notbook tabs

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

One thing should have added is that I am bound to use gtk+ 2.2.4 (suse 9.1).
Can anyone confirm this. Is it still happening with a recent gtk+ version.
if so I'll file a bug-report.

Many thanks,
Stefan

Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi hi,
>
> I am trying to add tooltip to ny notbook tabs.
> Previously the tabs had just labels:
>   label=gtk_label_new(_("pattern view"));
>   gtk_widget_set_name(label,_("pattern view"));
>   gtk_notebook_set_tab_label(GTK_NOTEBOOK(self),
>     gtk_notebook_get_nth_page(GTK_NOTEBOOK(self),1),label);
>
> now I put the label into an event-box first and use this as the tab-label
>   label=gtk_label_new(_("machine view"));
>   gtk_widget_set_name(label,_("machine view"));
>   event_box=gtk_event_box_new();
>   gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(event_box),label);
>   page=gtk_notebook_get_nth_page(GTK_NOTEBOOK(self),0);
>   gtk_notebook_set_tab_label(GTK_NOTEBOOK(self),page,event_box);
>   gtk_tooltips_set_tip(GTK_TOOLTIPS(tips),event_box,
>     _("The machines used in the song and their wires"),NULL);
>
> The tooltips work, but the problem is that the label is not shown.
>
> Any ideas?
>   Stefan
>
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