Re: tooltips

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
[...]

> But I have many areas, the widget is much like two-dimensional grid.
> There can easily be like 100 areas.  Think of GtkTreeView with many
> columns.
>
> Besides, it seems that GtkTooltips works only with widgets.  So, I'd
> have to wrap each `area' in a separate widget which is cumbersome.
> The widget is scrollable and on overall, there can be thousands of
> those areas.  This means that either the overhead would be really bad
> or I'd have to write some evil code to create widgets for only those
> areas that are visible in the viewport, gah...
>  
Its not that bad, I'm sure many applications have the same need;
just install a handler for "motion-notify-event" (make sure that
your widget has been realized with the correct event mask)
and call gtk_tooltips_set_tip() whenever the tooltip should change.

Cheers,
                                       -Tristan