[pygtk] How to get pygtk to give you a GtkToolTips from a Toolbar to pass to ToolItem's set_tooltip?

[Lauro]

On 5/21/07, Don Hopkins <dhopkins at donhopkins.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set the tooltip of a tool item, which I though would be
> easy, but the ToolItem.set_tooltip takes a first parameter that's a
> mysterious GtkTooltips object.
> But I can't figure out how to get a reference to the required ToolTips
> object to pass as a first argument to a ToolItem's set_tooltip(tooltips,
> tool_tip_string) ...
> The obvious looking method GtkToolbar.get_tooltips() actually returns a
> boolean that tells if the toolbar is using tooltips, but does not return
> the toolbar's "GtkTooltips *tooltips" member, which is declared public
> but apparently not exposed as a property to Python.

Did you try the FAQ [1]?
"How do I add tooltips to a ToolButton in a Toolbar?"
   1   tooltips = gtk.Tooltips()
   2   [...]
   3
   4   toolbar = gtk.Toolbar()
   5   toolbar.set_tooltips(True)
   6   [...]
   7
   8   toolbutton = gtk.ToolButton()
   9   toolbutton.set_tooltip(tooltips, "hi")

[1] http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/FAQ/Buttons#head-f960416c2d8b0eb9ad1c56a83d9efeadc649d811


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