Re: Tooltips with labels

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:

> hi;
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:26 +0530, Ashwin Ramachandran wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to check if tooltips are supported with label widgets?
>
> tips are supported by widgets with a GdkWindow; you must pack the
> Gtk2::Label into an Gtk2::EventBox and set the tip on the event box, not
> on the label.
>
> anyway: adding a tip to a label means that the label is not clear
> enough, so you should consider clarifying the content of the label. tip
> are also used on action widgets.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
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Regarding

"adding a tip to a label means that the label is not clear enough"

- no necessarily, that it, short label may be used to save precious GUI space,
so I see the question as quite legitimate and in Perl paradigm as

label => 'Quite detailed explanation of the label through tooltip'

key => value relationship.

--Sergei.

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