GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86332
Support dynamic tooltips
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
At the moment tooltips can be set for any widget with a window. However, these tooltips are static. If there was the ability to set a callback which is called on a particular widget with x,y co-ordinates when a tooltip is about to be displayed, the function could do arbitary work (i.e. retrieve data from a GtkTreeModel) so I could have tooltips for cells in TreeViews. If this is implemented, please don't make the Java Swing mistake of calling the callback every time the mouse moves, even if no tooltip is about to be displayed... :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50619 ***