Re: ComboBox and Tooltips

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:

> Having successfully compiled Gtk2 1.144 against gtk+ 2.10.11 in a
> sandbox, I have just switched all my OptionMenus to ComboBoxes.
> However, the Tooltips don't seem to work. Here is a little demo - the
> button tooltip works fine, but the combobox not.
>
> What haven't I understood correctly?

Hmm.  Doesn't work on my systems, either.

Yet again, the answer is "there is nothing in the bindings that would  
cause this sort of behavior, so this is a gtk+ issue."

To wit, i see the exact same behavior from this transliteration of  
your perl code to C (feel free to include it in your bugzilla  
report ;-):

/* compile with
gcc -W -Wall `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` combotooltip.c -o  
combotooltip
*/
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int
main (int argc,
      char *argv[])
{
        GtkWidget * window;
        GtkWidget * hbox;
        GtkWidget * button;
        GtkWidget * cb;
        GtkTooltips * tooltips;

        gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

        window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
        g_signal_connect (window, "delete-event",
                          G_CALLBACK (gtk_main_quit), NULL);

        hbox = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 5);
        gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), hbox);

        tooltips = gtk_tooltips_new ();
        gtk_tooltips_enable (tooltips);

        button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Button");
        gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (hbox), button, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
        gtk_tooltips_set_tip (tooltips, button, "Button", NULL);

        cb = gtk_combo_box_new_text ();
        gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (cb), "Combo Box");
        gtk_combo_box_set_active (GTK_COMBO_BOX (cb), 0);
        gtk_box_pack_end (GTK_BOX (hbox), cb, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
        gtk_tooltips_set_tip (tooltips, cb, "Combo Box", NULL);

        gtk_widget_show_all (window);

        gtk_main ();

        return 0;
}


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