Re: Tooltips for GtkTreeView?

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
>  well, yes and no. I am bound to use GTK 2.4.
> I was hoping for a pointer at some sample code (even inefficient).
>
> I also am wondering if someone fidled this based on callbacks via  
> gtk_tree_view_column_set_cell_data_func() ? IIUC, this would
> be the other way around: have the path (and therefore context to tooltip)
> and need to get position to raise tooltip. Wrong?

You can fake your own tooltips by using GtkWindow's created with 
GTK_WINDOW_POPUP.  Give the window a widget name of "gtk-tooltips", and 
GTK will assign the tooltip style to the widget (available as 
widget->style), so you can draw your text, background, etc. in 
accordance with the current theme.

- Michael