Class GTK2.Tooltips

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Description

Tooltips are the messages that appear next to a widget when the mouse pointer is held over it for a short amount of time. They are especially helpful for adding more verbose descriptions of things such as buttons in a toolbar.

An individual tooltip belongs to a group of tooltips. A group is created with a call to GTK2.Tooltips(). Every tooltip in the group can then be turned off with a call to disable() and enabled with enable().

The length of time the user must keep the mouse over a widget before the tip is shown, can be altered with set_delay(). This is set on a 'per group of tooltips' basis.

To assign a tip to a particular W(Widget), set_tip() is used.

The default appearance of all tooltips in a program is determined by the current gtk theme that the user has selected. To change the tooltip appearance manually, use set_colors(). Again, this is per group of tooltips.

Inherit Data: inherit GTK2.Data : Data

Method create: GTK2.Tooltips GTK2.Tooltips()
Description: Creates an empty group of tooltips. This function initialises a GTK2.Tooltips structure. Without at least one such structure, you can not add tips to your application.