Re: Adding a tooltip to a notebook tab

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

В Срд, 25/10/2006 в 13:52 -0400, Matt Bragano пишет:
> I've got a notebook tab with a label widget for text.  Since the text 
> length can sometime become overly long, I decided to truncate the text 
> to make the tab a reasonable size and use a tooltip to display the full 
> text.  This behavior is essentially the same thing Firefox does when you 
> have a bunch of open tabs and move your mouse over one.
> 
> The problem is that the tooltip never appears.  I've tried attaching it 
> to the label, the text, the return value of get_tab_label(), but nothing 
> seems to work.  Also, I've used tooltips in other situations with no 
> problems, so I don't think its a syntax error.
> 
> Is there a particular way to attach to a notebook tab, or might this be 
> a bug?  Or maybe normal behavior for some reason I don't know about?

I guess, you need Gtk::EventBox widget packed to tab widget and label
inside it.
The problem is well know - Gtk::Label has no own Gdk::Window to receive
events.