Re: Changing Tooltips "On The Fly"

[jseymour LinxNet com (Jim Seymour)]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> jseymour LinxNet com (Jim Seymour) writes: 
> > Putting in a new tooltip with gtk_tooltips_new(), works.  When I do
> > that, will gtk free() the space occupied by the old tooltip for me?  Or
> > will I eat memory that way?
>
> GtkTooltips is actually a _group_ of tooltips, not a single
> tooltip. You only need one such object per application.
>
> (I spent a year or two creating a GtkTooltips per-widget and wondering
> why the object had a weird "s" on the end of it ;-))

Lol!  That's just what I was doing, too.  And there was the little,
niggling thought at the back of my mind: "I wonder if I really need
only *one* GtkTooltips object?"

> If you call gtk_tooltips_set_tip() again it should change the tip for
> you.
[snip]

It does.  I was just curious about the memory management aspect of
doing that repeatedly.

Thanks for the follow-up, Havoc.  Appreciate it.


Regards,
Jim
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