[pygtk] Can't get tool tip to display

[Gerald Britton]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Dieter Verfaillie
<dieterv at optionexplicit.be> wrote:
> On 16/12/2010 23:04, Dieter Verfaillie wrote:
>> On 16/12/2010 22:06, Gerald Britton wrote:
>>> Hi Dieter,
>>>
>>> I just realized that your sample code displays a tooltip per row.
>>> What I would like to do is display the tip per column.  So, if I'm in
>>> column 3, I see "In column 3" or whatever, regardless of the row.  How
>>> should I modify your sample code to do that?
>>
>> Replace the on_query_tooltip() method in my previous example with the
>> snippet below. Note that the "columns" variable holds a gtk.TreeViewColumn
>> object.
>
> Or if you don't need that kind of flexibility you could add a column to
> your model and simply point treeview.set_tooltip_column() to it.
> See
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygtk/2.22/class-gtktreeview.html#method-gtktreeview--set-tooltip-column
> on how it works.
>

It looks like this is only for tooltips on entire rows:

"If you only plan to have simple (text-only) tooltips on full rows,"

So, it doesn't really meet my needs, since I want the tips to be by
columns, not rows.

> mvg,
> Dieter
>



-- 
Gerald Britton