Re: [pygtk] problems with glade and tooltips within toolbuttons

[John Finlay]

Thomas Mills Hinkle wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:01:30 +0000 Stuart Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Hi,
I've been pulling my hair out trying to get tooltips to work within a 
toolbutton.

I'm using glade-2 (2.6.5), libglade-2.3.6, pygtk-2.4.0, and python
2.3.4
I've attached a simple test case that shows a normal button's tooltip 
works, but a toolbutton's doesn't.

Has anyone got an idea what's wrong.
   

This isn't a whole lot of help, but I've created & attached a simple
test case w/o glade which confirms that glade is not the problem. 

You have to set the tooltip for a ToolItem using:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtktoolitem.html#method-gtktoolitem--set-tooltip 


Add it to the list of ToolButton woes... on an off topic note, does
anyone know why ToolBars are designed to work so badly with a keyboard
-- AFAIK there are no mnemonics allowed within a toolbar and tab doesn't
move through widgets in a toolbar correctly. Very frustrating if you
like the big button, attractive look of the toolbar but still want a
keyboard accessible app.
 

Use an Action with an accelerator and create the ToolItem from the 
Action.  With the UIManager it's pretty easy:

http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkuimanager.html
 

TIA, Stuart
   

Tom
 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
""""exec ${PYTHON:-python} -t $0 "$@";" """
import gtk
def main_quit(*args):
   w.destroy()
   gtk.main_quit()
tb = gtk.Toolbar()
qbutton = gtk.ToolButton(stock_id=gtk.STOCK_QUIT)
tb.add(qbutton)
qbutton.connect('clicked',main_quit)
cbutton = gtk.Button(stock=gtk.STOCK_CANCEL)
cbutton.connect('clicked',main_quit)
ti = gtk.ToolItem()
ti.add(cbutton)
tb.add(ti)
# create tooltips manually
tt = gtk.Tooltips()
tt.set_tip(qbutton,'quit now')
qbutton.set_tooltip(tt, 'quit now')
tt.set_tip(cbutton,'cancel now')
tt.enable()
tb.show_all()
# connects signal handlers defined in the glade file to actual code
w = gtk.Window()
w.connect('delete-event',main_quit)
w.add(tb)
w.show_all()
# mainloop
gtk.main()
 

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