[pygtk] Updating tooltip on gtk.StatusIcon

[François Ingelrest]

I may be wrong but I think that Rhythmbox uses a custom window to do
this, it does not use the tooltip itself (try to compare the look of
that window and the one of "real" tooltip).

On 10/17/07, Adolfo González Blázquez <listas at infinicode.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a little app that uses gtk.StatusIcon, and I would like to
> know if is there any way to update the tooltip text while the pointer is
> hold over the icon. The behaviour I mean is something like Rhythmbox
> does while playing a song.
>
> The tooltip text gets updated when I move the mouse pointer over the
> icon, but when it stills, no text updating .
>
> The related code is quite simple:
>
>
> def __init__(self):
>
>         self.image = 'icon.png'
>         self.mls = MlStats()
>
>         self.icon = gtk.StatusIcon()
>         self.icon.set_from_file(self.image)
>         self.icon.set_visible(True)
>
>         self.icon.connect('activate', self.on_icon_activate)
>
>         self.menu = self.create_menu()
>
>         self.timeout = 1000
>         gobject.timeout_add(self.timeout, self.update)
>
>
> def update(self):
>         stats = self.mls.get_stats()
>         self.icon.set_tooltip(stats)
>         return True
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> -- adolfo
>
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