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

[Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>]

Dixit Murray Cumming (2006-01-22 16:21):
> 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().

You're right.  That worked.

The tooltips are now displayed when the mouse cursor goes over the
toolbar buttons.  I would now like to have the tooltips for the menu
entries appear in a status bar when the mouse cursor goes over those
entries.  I vaguely remember that this was partly automated by the
GNOME API, so I'm now looking for a way to reproduce that behavior
with gtkmm.  (I've added a Gtk::Statusbar to the main window.)
Any pointers?

Thanks.

-- 
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>