Workaround for too-fast tooltips

2016-01-29 Thread Richard Shann
ltip") You have to write the functions show_tooltip()and free_tooltip() yourself, of course. The background to this is that if your applications uses tooltips heavily (e.g. on every item of a menu) then recent versions of GTK3 throw them up too quickly, and once they start to appear they are ve

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-28 Thread Richard Shann
On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 12:00 +, gtk-app-devel-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:42:25 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucas Levrel > To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong? > Message-ID: > Content-Type: T

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-27 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 27 novembre 2015, John Coppens a écrit : I think those 'tear-offs' are not the same ones as referred to here. The 'main menu bar' of GIMP doesn't have tear-offs anymore. I believe the ones you are showing are from right-clicking on the canvas. Right. I also suspect that the complexities ar

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-27 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:56:06 +0100 (CET) Lucas Levrel wrote: > Please see by yourself: Lucas, I think those 'tear-offs' are not the same ones as referred to here. The 'main menu bar' of GIMP doesn't have tear-offs anymore. I believe the ones you are showing are from right-clicking on the canva

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Shann
gt;> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:49:52 + > > >> Richard Shann wrote: > > >> > > >> > I've pushed a fix that turns off tooltips on menus while leaving them > > >> > on > > >> > everything else (for GTK version >=3.10). > &g

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Shann
t; > >> > I've pushed a fix that turns off tooltips on menus while leaving them on > >> > everything else (for GTK version >=3.10). > >> > Can you test if this makes a usable interface? > >> > >> It doesn't, and I fail to see why it shoul

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-19 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 19 November 2015 at 09:53, Richard Shann wrote: > On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 23:41 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:49:52 + >> Richard Shann wrote: >> >> > I've pushed a fix that turns off tooltips on menus while leaving them on &g

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Shann
On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 23:41 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:49:52 + > Richard Shann wrote: > > > I've pushed a fix that turns off tooltips on menus while leaving them on > > everything else (for GTK version >=3.10). > > Can you te

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-19 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 18 novembre 2015, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : On 18 November 2015 at 15:57, Lucas Levrel wrote: Le 18 novembre 2015, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : Tearoff menus are, by *any* metric that is not artificially restricted to "the Denemo users", a very seldom used UI element in any UI that has been

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Shann
lendar and > > lookup a web page with a simple interface comprising a few gestures, but > > you can't do complex technical tasks efficiently that way. > > You still haven't demonstrated that "changing tooltip delay", a complex task can be helped by having tool

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 18 November 2015 at 16:55, Richard Shann wrote: >> > But in the longer term we are coming up to a crunch - the people >> > developing Gtk are clearly only interested in a narrow group of users. >> >> Defining "narrow" as "the group that I'm not in" is not conducive to >> an honest discuss

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Shann
> time before a tooltip appears can no longer be controlled, which many > > people will find intolerable (I know of people who set very long times > > on the tooltips, basically because it takes them long enough to read the > > labels on menu items, so that having tooltips pop

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 18 November 2015 at 15:57, Lucas Levrel wrote: > Le 18 novembre 2015, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > >>> They decide that menus should not be torn off, and that is that, despite >>> the fact that Denemo users do tear off menus if they are going to be >>> using them for a while. >> >> >> Tearo

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 18 novembre 2015, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : They decide that menus should not be torn off, and that is that, despite the fact that Denemo users do tear off menus if they are going to be using them for a while. Tearoff menus are, by *any* metric that is not artificially restricted to "the De

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
of people who set very long times > on the tooltips, basically because it takes them long enough to read the > labels on menu items, so that having tooltips pop up while they are > looking for something is annoying - they would take a long time to read > a tooltip anyway). > I thin

Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Shann
ontrol the popup delay > time, and, also apparently, that disabled (circumvents) the behaviour > described at b. above. > > But this was changed in Gtk 3.10. Now all applications behave consistent > according to a. and b. above. Since Denemo is heavily equipped with > tooltips-sensitive area

Tooltips blown away by ProgressBar

2009-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Barish
When I hover over any of a number of widgets in my application, a tooltip appears. However, as soon as a progressbar updates, the tooltip disappears. Is there a way to get the tooltips to stick around the way they do when there is no progressbar update? -- Jeffrey Barish

Re: Tooltips on GtkTreeView

2007-10-15 Thread Enrico Tröger
n a GtkTreeView for the row > > that the user is hovering their cursor over. It is not guaranteed > > that the row the user is over is the selected row. Also if the > > tooltip can be set on row addition that is fine. > > How about connect a motion-notify-event signal

Re: Tooltips on GtkTreeView

2007-10-15 Thread Binary Chen
the user is over is the selected row. Also if the tooltip can be set > on row addition that is fine. How about connect a motion-notify-event signal and show the tooltips in in the signal handler? Seems like: g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(gtkblist->treeview), "motion-notify-event",

Tooltips on GtkTreeView

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin DeKorte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Is there an easy way to set a tooltip on a GtkTreeView for the row that the user is hovering their cursor over. It is not guaranteed that the row the user is over is the selected row. Also if the tooltip can be set on row addition that is fine

Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

2007-04-11 Thread Yann Renard
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 v

Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

2007-04-11 Thread Gian Mario Tagliaretti
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 an

Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

2007-04-11 Thread Yann Renard
Yann Renard wrote: > Dear mailing list, > > 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 an

Re: Adding different tooltips to a single widget

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:47 +0200, Yann Renard wrote: > 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 curs

Adding different tooltips to a single widget

2007-04-06 Thread Yann Renard
Dear mailing list, 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

ui manager for menus and tooltips

2007-04-04 Thread Dan McMahill
Hello, Is there a way to enable/disable tooltips for menus created with the ui manager? GtkUIManager *ui; GtkActionGroup *actions; GtkActionEntry *new_entries; ui = gtk_ui_manager_new (); actions = gtk_action_group_new ("Actions"); /* code that fills in new_entries

Re: Tooltips for GtkTreeView?

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Ekstrand
; be the other way around: have the path (and therefore context to tooltip) > and need to get position to raise tooltip. Wrong? You can fake your own tooltips by using GtkWindow's created with GTK_WINDOW_POPUP. Give the window a widget name of "gtk-tooltips", and GTK will as

Re: Tooltips for GtkTreeView?

2007-02-28 Thread Jan-Oliver Wagner
Hello Ed, Am Donnerstag 22 Februar 2007 21:10 schrieb Ed Catmur: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:50 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > does anyone established tooltips for the entries in a GtkTreeView? > > > > I've not found anything ready-to-use in the GTK API nor throu

Re: Tooltips for GtkTreeView?

2007-02-22 Thread Ed Catmur
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:50 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > does anyone established tooltips for the entries in a GtkTreeView? > > I've not found anything ready-to-use in the GTK API nor through a google > search. So, any hint is welcome. You want Kris's super-shiny n

Tooltips for GtkTreeView?

2007-02-22 Thread Jan-Oliver Wagner
Hello, does anyone established tooltips for the entries in a GtkTreeView? I've not found anything ready-to-use in the GTK API nor through a google search. So, any hint is welcome. Best Jan -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner Intevation GmbH Amtsge

RE: Cairo in tooltips

2007-02-21 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
ed. > While this approach could be taken instead of the usual (mostly) > boring tooltips, a program could have something like a help mode > which would turn on extended tooltips showing more text and some > small images to help the user. This is just an idea of course. Tooltips alre

Cairo in tooltips

2007-02-19 Thread Marko Anastasov
Hello, Since the new tooltips API allows us to put custom widgets in a tooltip, I thought it would be nice to make that widget be a drawing area showing an alpha transparent Cairo drawing. So I wrote testcairotooltips.c for fun. You can see how it looks like [1] or even download it [2]. (I built

Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-15 Thread Francesco Montorsi
Jim George ha scritto: >> If you know how to make it work automatically for >> GTK_NO_WINDOW widgets... > > I read that GtkLabel widgets don't have backing windows, for > performance reasons. I haven't read any such comment about, say, > GtkComboBoxEntry widgets. Maybe the documentation needs to b

Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-15 Thread Jim George
> If you know how to make it work automatically for > GTK_NO_WINDOW widgets... I read that GtkLabel widgets don't have backing windows, for performance reasons. I haven't read any such comment about, say, GtkComboBoxEntry widgets. Maybe the documentation needs to be updated? I, for one, would like

Re: reply-to for gtk-app-devel list (was Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?)

2007-01-14 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 16:25 +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote: > Hi, > > Jim George ha scritto: > > PS, sorry the mail didn't get sent to the mailing list last time. I > > think the mailing list should set a "Reply-To" header pointing to > > itself. Replying to the sender, rather than the list seems

Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-14 Thread Yeti
tself since: > > 1) it's not documented anywhere (AFAIK) that tooltips cannot be set > e.g. on GtkFileChooserButtons or GtkComboBoxEntry controls http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkTooltips.html#id3596549 > 2) it does not make much sense to disallow tooltips on t

reply-to for gtk-app-devel list (was Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?)

2007-01-14 Thread Francesco Montorsi
Hi, Jim George ha scritto: > PS, sorry the mail didn't get sent to the mailing list last time. I > think the mailing list should set a "Reply-To" header pointing to > itself. Replying to the sender, rather than the list seems like too > common a mistake. I completely agree - for a development list

Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-14 Thread Francesco Montorsi
Hi George, Jim George ha scritto: > I know that glade doesn't let you set tooltips for many different > controls (such as a GtkComboBoxEntry -- is this a bug?). My fix is to > put the combobox inside an event box and assign the event box a > tooltip. thanks for the advice - how

Re: cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-14 Thread Jim George
ckers.c file of the > "gtk-demo" app in order to show it... just drop it over your original > one and recompile the gtk-demo: I can't see any tooltip... > I know that glade doesn't let you set tooltips for many different controls (such as a GtkComboBoxEntry -- is this

cannot set tooltips over a picker widget?

2007-01-14 Thread Francesco Montorsi
GTK+ 2.10.3 Hi, I'm trying to set a tooltip on a GtkFileChooserButton widget without success... maybe it's simply not possible? I've done a minimal change to the attached pickers.c file of the "gtk-demo" app in order to show it... just drop it over your original one and recompile the gtk

Reset Tooltips ? easy (?) newbie question

2006-12-28 Thread kakuta
Hi everyone, I'd be grateful if you could help with a quick question regarding 'tooltips', is it possible to re-set the tooltips somehow? I have successfully created and set some tooltips, but I then want to change these tooltips while the program is running

Re: tooltips

2006-03-02 Thread Freddie Unpenstein
Original message written by someone, somewhen... > I wish it was possible to control tooltips position (they are > always at the bottom of the widget an I cannot visually tie them > to the appropriate `area') and use marked up text, like bold and > stuff. The tooltips cod

Re: tooltips

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Some widget; depending on if they provide there own GdkWindow or > not (GtkLabel I think for example), will not support tooltips out of the > box; > in this case you need only put your widget inside a GtkEventBox. W, when I read your message I suddenl

Re: tooltips

2006-02-19 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
ever the tooltip should change. You are probably right, but I haven't been able to make the tips show up :( I didn't even manage to add tooltips to a GtkTextView (not even after gtk_widget_add_events (text_view, GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK) and unwrapping it from GtkScrolledWindow.) My

Re: tooltips

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
your widget has been realized with the correct event mask) > and call gtk_tooltips_set_tip() whenever the tooltip should change. You are probably right, but I haven't been able to make the tips show up :( I didn't even manage to add tooltips to a GtkTextView (not even after gtk_widget_ad

Re: tooltips

2006-02-18 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Paul Pogonyshev wrote: [...] But I have many areas, the widget is much like two-dimensional grid. There can easily be like 100 areas. Think of GtkTreeView with many columns. Besides, it seems that GtkTooltips works only with widgets. So, I'd have to wrap each `area' in a separate widget which

Re: tooltips

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Ronald Vincent Tarrant wrote: > Paul Pogonyshev wrote: > > >I want to add tooltips to my widget, but they should be different for > >different widget areas. It seems there is no way to implement this > >using GtkTooltips... Any hints? > > How about two (or m

Re: tooltips

2006-02-18 Thread Ronald Vincent Tarrant
Paul Pogonyshev wrote: I want to add tooltips to my widget, but they should be different for different widget areas. It seems there is no way to implement this using GtkTooltips... Any hints? Hi Paul, How about two (or more) separate instances of the ToolTips class, one for each

tooltips

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Hi, I want to add tooltips to my widget, but they should be different for different widget areas. It seems there is no way to implement this using GtkTooltips... Any hints? Paul ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http

tooltips on gtktreeview column headers

2005-11-29 Thread Gyözö Both
hello list, the subject line says it all. is it possible to attach tooltips to the column headers? if the answer is yes, how? i didn't find anything useful with google or in the archives. gyözö -- "There is no statute of limitations on stupidity." -- Randomly produced by a c

Re: Tooltips inside a TreeView.

2005-09-25 Thread Nicolas Cormier
On 9/25/05, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicolas Cormier wrote: > > >Hi all, > >I was wondering if it's possible to do row specific tooltips. > >Thanks in advance. > > > > > It is not so easy, but it can be done. I'd rec

Re: Tooltips inside a TreeView.

2005-09-25 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nicolas Cormier wrote: >Hi all, >I was wondering if it's possible to do row specific tooltips. >Thanks in advance. > > It is not so easy, but it can be done. I'd recommend looking at gaim's (http://gaim.sf.net) sources: see file gtkblist.c, starting at the motio

Tooltips inside a TreeView.

2005-09-24 Thread Nicolas Cormier
Hi all, I was wondering if it's possible to do row specific tooltips. Thanks in advance. ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list