Re: [gtkmm] Tooltips on Toolbuttons

[John Spray <jcs116 york ac uk>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 16:34, John Spray wrote:
> Firstly, here's what I've tried and found doesn't work: in my class
> ("GToolbar"), I have a member "Gtk::Tooltips tooltips_".  For each
> ToolButton created and added, I do "tooltips_.set_tip(*toolbutton, tip,
> tip);".  This compiles and runs without errors or warnings, but no
> tooltips are displayed.  I've tried calling tooltips_.enable().

Hmmm, I've now found that doing "toolbutton->set_tooltip(tooltips_,tip)"
works perfectly.  So now my question is: under what circumstances would
I want to use the Gtk::Tooltips::set_tip function, and why didn't it
work in this case?

John