Re: [gtk-list] Tooltips and listitems (was Unidentified subject!)

[owt1 cornell edu]

On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:

> Can anybody tell me a simple(!) way to do the following:
> 
>   I'd like to add tooltips in such a way that the text of the tip
>   depends on the *list item* the mouse is currently over.
> 
> GTKList has a window, right? GTKListItem, as a descendent of GTKItem
> doesn't (would be really overkill anyway).

I think GtkListItem does in fact have a window. So I would expect tooltips
to work fine. Have you tried adding one to a ListItem and seeing if
it worked? In fact, I'm pretty sure I've done this in the past.

Regards
                                      Owen