Re: Adding tooltips to menu entries defined in an XML file?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:39 -0500, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> Hi.  I am using Gtk::UIManager::add_ui_from_file() to load the
> menubar and toolbar from an XML file.  The resulting menu entries
> do not come with tooltips.  Is it possible to add tooltips in
> the <menuitem> tags in the XML file (in a way that works with
> GNU Gettext)?

The ui XML does not contain any human-readable text. I guess that would
be provided in the call to Gtk::Action::create(). For instance:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Action.html#e2555a23dc41f5b01d97db7ffad573da

(Those functions need doxygen reference documentation.)

> If not, is there a way to associate internationalized tooltips to
> action names?  Thanks.

You can then use _() on the text that you give to create().

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