Re: tooltips on windowless widgets

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  the whole problem is I need to have "transparent widgets" ones that are
>  "drawn by the parent completely"
>  
>  actually I'm redoing the whole thing and doing this,
>  
>  instead of making tiles optional they will be "required" ... the tiles are
>  square, so I can make them a window owning widget ... and do alpha channel
>  drawing of the icon onto the tile ... this will get rid of that problem
>  sacrificing the ability of putting icons directly on the panel with alpha
>  channel support ... hmm .. well ... who cares ... making them windowfull
>  widgets will make the code simpler and cleaner anyhow ...

You can try a semi-hack where the parent draws everything, and then
you put an InputOnly window over the area you want to receive events
from.  Since that window is transparent, it look fine.

  Federico