Re: [gtkmm] Tooltips with gtkmm-2.3

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Friday 09 April 2004 19:58, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:55, Chris Vine wrote:
> > The thing that slightly troubles me is that this means accessing a
> > private member of struct _GtkToolbar, which you are not really supposed
> > to do.
>
> If you read that bug, you will see that it is public.


Yes, you are right.  In gtktoolbar.h that member is described as public so it 
is fair game for gtkmm to use it.  However the html documentation describes 
it as private.  (They should use doxygen and then these problems wouldn't 
arise).  It is a library implementer's issue, so if gtkmm provides an 
accessor it is probably not worth entering a documentation bug.

The best solution in the long term seems to me to be to omit GtkTooltips from 
GtkToolbar.  Users of GtkToolbar who want tooltips can define their own 
GtkTooltips object and then you wouldn't need an accessor at all.

Chris.