Class

GtkTooltip

Description [src] 

final class Gtk.Tooltip : GObject.Object
{
  /* No available fields */
}

GtkTooltip is an object representing a widget tooltip.

Basic tooltips can be realized simply by using gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text() or gtk_widget_set_tooltip_markup() without any explicit tooltip object.

When you need a tooltip with a little more fancy contents, like adding an image, or you want the tooltip to have different contents per GtkTreeView row or cell, you will have to do a little more work:

  • Set the GtkWidget:has-tooltip property to TRUE. This will make GTK monitor the widget for motion and related events which are needed to determine when and where to show a tooltip.

  • Connect to the GtkWidget::query-tooltip signal. This signal will be emitted when a tooltip is supposed to be shown. One of the arguments passed to the signal handler is a GtkTooltip object. This is the object that we are about to display as a tooltip, and can be manipulated in your callback using functions like gtk_tooltip_set_icon(). There are functions for setting the tooltip’s markup, setting an image from a named icon, or even putting in a custom widget.

  • Return TRUE from your ::query-tooltip handler. This causes the tooltip to be show. If you return FALSE, it will not be shown.

Hierarchy

hierarchy this GtkTooltip ancestor_0 GObject ancestor_0--this

Ancestors

Instance methods

gtk_tooltip_set_custom

Replaces the widget packed into the tooltip with custom_widget. custom_widget does not get destroyed when the tooltip goes away. By default a box with a GtkImage and GtkLabel is embedded in the tooltip, which can be configured using gtk_tooltip_set_markup() and gtk_tooltip_set_icon().

gtk_tooltip_set_icon

Sets the icon of the tooltip (which is in front of the text) to be paintable. If paintable is NULL, the image will be hidden.

gtk_tooltip_set_icon_from_gicon

Sets the icon of the tooltip (which is in front of the text) to be the icon indicated by gicon with the size indicated by size. If gicon is NULL, the image will be hidden.

gtk_tooltip_set_icon_from_icon_name

Sets the icon of the tooltip (which is in front of the text) to be the icon indicated by icon_name with the size indicated by size. If icon_name is NULL, the image will be hidden.

gtk_tooltip_set_markup

Sets the text of the tooltip to be markup.

gtk_tooltip_set_text

Sets the text of the tooltip to be text.

gtk_tooltip_set_tip_area

Sets the area of the widget, where the contents of this tooltip apply, to be rect (in widget coordinates). This is especially useful for properly setting tooltips on GtkTreeView rows and cells, GtkIconViews, etc.

Methods inherited from GObject (43)

Please see GObject for a full list of methods.

Signals

Signals inherited from GObject (1)
GObject::notify

The notify signal is emitted on an object when one of its properties has its value set through g_object_set_property(), g_object_set(), et al.