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Anyone know how to add pop-up tooltips to individual 'fields' in a treeview? Note: My treeview displays a list store, not a tree store ...rows and columns of information.

I would like to have a content-specific tooltip type window pop up if the mouse hovers over an item for a short time, not just a generic tooltip.

The second best answer would be a more generic type tooltip, but different for each column in a treeview.

The third best answer would be a generic type tooltip that pops up when hovering anywhere within a treeview.

Anyone?

Thanks,
Brian

The way to get a tooltip on a whole row of a GtkTreeView is as follows.

First, you need to create a new column in the ListStore with the text for the tooltips (G_TYPE_STRING). You then set the tooltip_column property of the TreeView to the column number (usually from a enum), using gtk_tree_view_set_tooltip_column.

If you want tooltips on specific cells, you have to do something more complex, but I don't know what it is.

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@tananaBrian: Hello and welcome to the Gtk+ forums.

GtkTooltip documentation is quite informative about the different ways of playing with tooltips. You can read it here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkTooltip.html#GtkTooltip.description

GtkTreeView offers some convenience function to work with tooltips. They ar all described in GtkTreeView's API documentation at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkTreeView.html (the last 5 functions in synopsis part are related to tooltips).

A sample of usage can be seen in one of the evolutions file: http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#pzH_xHoYSPE/mail/mail-component.c&q=query_tooltip_cb%20lang:c

Hope you'll find some useful pointers in upper material.