Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Jim George ha scritto:
> > My fix is to
> > put the combobox inside an event box and assign the event box a
> > tooltip.
> thanks for the advice - however I think that this should be fixed in 
> GTK+ itself since:
>
>   1) it's not documented anywhere (AFAIK) that tooltips cannot be set 
> e.g. on GtkFileChooserButtons or GtkComboBoxEntry controls

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkTooltips.html#id3596549

>   2) it does not make much sense to disallow tooltips on those controls

It is not disallowed, it just does not work automatically.

> I'll eventually submit a bug report...

If you know how to make it work automatically for
GTK_NO_WINDOW widgets...

Yeti


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