Re: GtkTooltips vs a method on GtkWidget

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:51 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:

> In other words, why is there:
> 
>         gtk_tooltips_set_tip(GtkTooltips, GtkWidget, gchar*)
> 
> instead of 
> 
>         gtk_widget_set_tooltip(GtkWidget, gchar*)
> 
> which would seem more straight forward function to have.

I guess you haven't seen the work that Kris did and the new tooltips API
that is currently in gtk+ trunk and will be released with gtk+ 2.12:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-June/msg00092.html

and:

  http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.11/GtkTooltip.html

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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