Re: Tooltips don't appear every time while hoovering over a widget

[Thomas Funk <t funk web de>]

On 03/05/2014 08:14 PM, zentara wrote:> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:08:51 +0100
> "Thomas Funk" <t funk web de> wrote:
>
> > "Emmanuele Bassi" <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
>
> > > don't. GtkTooltips has long since been deprecated, and should never be
> > > used in newly written code:
> > >
> > >     https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkTooltips.html
> > >
> > > you should simply set the tooltip through the
> > > Gtk2::Widget::set_tooltip_text() method (or set_tooltip_markup()
> > > method, if you want to use Pango markup in the tooltips).
> >
> > I tried this already but it has the same behaviour - tooltip is shown
> > around the corners of a widget only :-(
> >
> >
> > Could you provide a perl snippet so that I understand what I have to do?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> > Thomas
>
> Hi, I don't want to contradict Emmanuelle Bassi, about
> it being deprecated, but here is a script that works
> with Tooltips.
>
> The glitch as far as I remember, was that tooltip needed 
> an eventbox on non-windowed widgets, like Labels. I hope this
> example helps.

First of all thanks for the script :-)

Gtk2::Tooltips doesn't work inside the module (SimpleGtk2.pm)
=> if you hoover the mouse cursor over a widget the tooltip only 
appears at the border of the widget.

Outside, in the top level script (testem.pl) it works fine - you
can hoover inside the widget area around without the tooltip
disppears. But for the usage it would be better the module can
handle it.

For Gtk2::Tooltip I've found an example (in gmusicbrowser) for
set_tooltip_area and how that works ^^

But the same behavior as with Tooltips - with the default
set_tooltip_text tooltips only around the widget border

With the query_tooltip signal, too :-(

Probably I must use a window tooltip described here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GTK2-Perl/Recipes#How_can_I_programmatically_popup_a_tooltip_.3F

I've started a try with that using the two events enter and leave - 
with print no problem, but showing another window it blocks the widget.

Perhaps I have to start it in a separate thread as I did it in
Python (I don't know if it is possible in Perl, too) ...

Or let the tooltips away.

I will make some other tests if this issue with the tooltips
showing only around the border depending on the fixed container
I put the widget in.

- Thomas --- 
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