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caros · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

I have not been able to make tooltips work on a GtkFileChooserButton
Is there anything unique about them?
Is it because they actually are a composite widget?
Does the tootlip have to be set on the label and button which are private?

dreblen · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:30 am Post subject:

it works fine for me.
does this work for you?

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#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
GtkWidget *win;
GtkWidget *but;

gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

win = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(win), "delete-event", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);

but = gtk_file_chooser_button_new("Chooser", GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_OPEN);
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text(but, "This button opens a GtkFileChooser for opening");
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(win), but);
gtk_widget_show(but);

gtk_widget_show(win);

gtk_main();

return 0;
}

caros · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

No that does not work for me. What version do you have? I have 2.6.8

dreblen · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject:

I'm using 2.12.9.
does this version work for you?
I don't have a 2.6 system, but it should work.

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#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
GtkWidget *win;
GtkWidget *but;

GtkTooltips *tooltips;

gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

tooltips = gtk_tooltips_new();

win = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(win), "delete-event", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);

but = gtk_file_chooser_button_new("Chooser", GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_OPEN);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(win), but);
gtk_widget_show(but);
gtk_tooltips_set_tip(tooltips, but, "This button opens a GtkFileChooser for opening", NULL);

gtk_widget_show(win);

gtk_main();

return 0;
}