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[gtk-list] Re: [patch] Multi-line labels and enhanced tooltips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Mosberger-Tang)
Thu Jun 12 10:25:16 1997
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 07:23:45 -0700
From: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@azstarnet.com>
To: lupus@dei.unipd.it, gtk-list@redhat.com
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Paolo> In the modified tooltips you can say something like this:
Paolo> gtk_tooltips_set_tip(tooltips, widget, another_widget);
Paolo> another_widget can be almost anything you can add to
Paolo> a container (tooltips->tip_window). Almost because if you
Paolo> add a button, it cannot receive events: the tip window gets
Paolo> popped down when you "leave" widget, of course.
Paolo> The old gtk_tooltips_set_tips() call just builds a label
Paolo> and calls gtk_tooltips_set_tip() so you should break the text
Paolo> with "\n"s.
Paolo> I haven't removed the tooltips_set_colors() call: is it
Paolo> useful now? I use the colors only to draw a black rectangle
Paolo> around the window...
Please keep in mind that there are programs out there that use
tooltips already (e.g., SANE's xscanimage). Your change sounds like
the right thing, but it would be nice if there were at least a
compatibility function that supports automatic line-breaking.
Actually, I don't see why it's not possible to leave the set_tips()
interface as it is and add the "arbitrary widget" functionality
through something else (e.g., set_tip_widget()).
Also, xscanimage uses the set_colors() call to make the tips come up
in PostIt yellow (actually, I'd prefer if this could be done from the
style file).
--david
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