[pygtk] Updating tooltip on gtk.StatusIcon

[Adolfo González Blázquez]

El mi=E9, 17-10-2007 a las 19:59 +0200, Fran=E7ois Ingelrest escribi=F3:
> 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).

Yes, the use libsexy to draw the tooltip.
Another question would be how to add a custom tooltip to a
gtk.StatusIcon....

> =

> On 10/17/07, Adolfo Gonz=E1lez Bl=E1zquez <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 =3D 'icon.png'
> >         self.mls =3D MlStats()
> >
> >         self.icon =3D gtk.StatusIcon()
> >         self.icon.set_from_file(self.image)
> >         self.icon.set_visible(True)
> >
> >         self.icon.connect('activate', self.on_icon_activate)
> >
> >         self.menu =3D self.create_menu()
> >
> >         self.timeout =3D 1000
> >         gobject.timeout_add(self.timeout, self.update)
> >
> >
> > def update(self):
> >         stats =3D self.mls.get_stats()
> >         self.icon.set_tooltip(stats)
> >         return True
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > -- adolfo
> >
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