Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

["Gian Mario Tagliaretti" <gianmt gnome org>]

2007/4/6, Yann Renard <yann renard mailing-lists tiscali fr>:

> I have a problem with tooltips. I have a drawing aread which I use to
> draw several things. I would like to provide tooltips on this drawing
> area but the tooltip content should vary according to what is drawn
> under the cursor and where the cursor is placed. Problem is I have a
> single GtkWidget... GtkTipsQuery does not seem to fit my needs either.
> What should be used in such context ?

This will be possible in a short time with goocanvas[1], Damon is
implementing the possibility to have tooltips on canvas items, maybe
it can fit your needs, this will require gtk+ 2.12 though.

(goocanvas will shortly freeze the API with a 1.0 stable release.)

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/goocanvas

cheers
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Gian Mario Tagliaretti