Re: Adding Tooltips in a TreeView

["John Hobbs" <john velvetcache org>]

That works like a charm, I'd overlooked that method, much appreciated.

It might be helpful to add a bit of documentation in that method as
well as maybe in the set_tooltip_row() to point users towards
set_tooltip_column().  I'd be happy to come up with that, and there
are some other documentation oriented things I would like to
contribute as well.

What's the best way to go about that?  I grabbed the source out of SVN
trunk, should I just make a patch and submit to bugzilla?  Is it more
effort for the maintainers than it is worth if I start stomping around
documenting things? I'd hate to be a nuisance :-)

Thanks,

- John Hobbs

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 17:34 -0500, John Hobbs wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to set tooltips by row in a tree view, but I'm a tad stuck.
>>
>> Looking at the documentation I see I need a Gtk::TreeModel::Path,
>> which I am currently getting from a Gtk::TreeModel::iterator, which I
>> get in turn from calling append() on a Gtk::ListStore :-)
>
> You can get a TreeModel::Path from a TreeModel::iterator by using the
> Path(iterator) constructor.
>
>> What I also apparently need is a RefPtr to a Gtk::ToolTip, here is the
>> call from the documentation [1].
>>
>> void Gtk::TreeView::set_tooltip_row ( const Glib::RefPtr<Tooltip>&
>> tooltip, const TreePath& path );
>
> I am also not sure how this should be used.
>
> I think it will be easier to just add a text column in the model for the
> tooltip text, and then use set_tooltip_column().
>
>> My question is, where do I get a RefPtr to a Gtk::Tooltip? There isn't
>> a static "create()" method in Gtk::Tooltip like I am accustomed to.
>> Anyone see what am I missing here?
>>
>> Thanks for your help in advance :-)
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