Re: Creating a windowless fake tooltip

[Donny Viszneki <donny viszneki gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Aaron Cohen <aaron assonance org> wrote:
> Hi all, quick question.

I've seen quicker ;P

> (Incidentally, what I'm doing is drawing the tooltip to an offscreen
> window, so that I can create a snapshot of it. I'm then using this to
> create a texture in OpenGL that I use to draw tooltips that match the
> current desktop styling. Just creating the tooltip in a fake GtkWindow
> doesn't work because it can't be added to an offscreen window, and I
> don't want the fake tooltip to ever be displayed.)

I heard that there was an OpenGL GDK-backend. Perhaps that would be
helpful for your project?

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