GtkTooltips

An object for managing a collection of tooltips.

Object Hierarchy

GObject
`-- GtkObject
       `-- GtkTooltips

Description

Tooltips are the messages that appear next to a widget when the mouse pointer is held over it for a short amount of time. They are especially helpful for adding more verbose descriptions of things such as buttons in a toolbar.

An individual tooltip belongs to a group of tooltips. A group is created with the constructor. Every tooltip in the group can then be turned off with a call to disable() and enabled with enable() .

Tooltips can only be set on widgets which have their own X window. To add a tooltip to a widget that doesn't have its own window, place the widget inside a GtkEventBox and add a tooltip to that instead.

Constructors

-- Creates a new tooltips object.

Methods

disable()
  Disables the tooltips.
enable()
  Enables the tooltips.
force_window()
  Internal use only.
set_delay()
  Set the amount of time until the tips appear.
set_tip()
  Set the tooltip for a widget.

Fields

active_tips_data:
 
delay:
 
enabled:
 
timer_tag:
 
tip_label:
 
tip_window:
 
tips_data_list:
 
use_sticky_delay: