Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote: > 2007/4/6, Yann Renard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have a problem with tooltips. I have a drawing aread which I use to >> draw several things. I would like to provide tooltips on this drawing >> area but the tooltip content should vary according to what is drawn >> under the cursor and where the cursor is placed. Problem is I have a >> single GtkWidget... GtkTipsQuery does not seem to fit my needs either. >> What should be used in such context ? > > This will be possible in a short time with goocanvas[1], Damon is > implementing the possibility to have tooltips on canvas items, maybe > it can fit your needs, this will require gtk+ 2.12 though. > > (goocanvas will shortly freeze the API with a 1.0 stable release.) > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/goocanvas > > cheers
Dear Gian Mario, thank you for pointing this software to me... It could be a nice solution to my problem but I'd like to avoid third party dependancies as much as possible (this is for both code evolution and ease of compilation under windows). I guess it would not be reasonnable to add a dependancy for this... moreover, this should be part of GTK in the sense that tooltips implementation is not complete (I know this is more a personnal opinion than a true fact ;) and that every problem/feeling/need depends on the context). I'm not a GTK developper myself and I don't know how much work it would be to add generalized tooltips management to drawing area widgets... I already had to code some workaround in order to have picking working in this drawing area. In fact, the lack of functionnality better concerns drawing area than tooltips... and this leaves a place for something like your goocanvas. But if this is done in goocanvas, why couldn't it be added in GTK ? This is what makes opensource sooooo powerfull isn't it ? Best regards, Yann Renard _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
