[grapefruit] Can't fit tooltips into grapefruit "box" model

Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org
Fri Jun 19 03:14:51 EDT 2009


Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 22:10 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
> Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 21:30 schrieb Roman Cheplyaka:
> > > I would not create a Tooltips object (tooltip group) everytime, the
> > > tooltip signal changes, but only once per widget.
> >
> > Hence my question "how to do this in grapefruit" asked in the first
> > mail.
>
> Usually, you would create the tooltip group together with the widget.
> Something similar is done in the implementation of list views and set
> views. There, not only a widget is created, but also a corresponding model,
> for example. Could you please have a look at the implementation of
> Graphics.UI.Grapefruit.GTK.Backend.Container.listViewBrick to get an idea?
>
> The problem regarding tooltips is that the tooltips signal should probably
> be automatically available for any kind of widget, like IsEnable is. It’s
> currently not supported that such an all-widgets signal depends on some
> other object than the widget object. I’ll try to look at this problem when
> I find the time. If you have a solution for this, please tell me.

Hello Roman,

have you made any progress regarding tooltips?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang



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