Re: New widget: Dialog, Tooltip? WxWidgets support?

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, William Lahti wrote:

> tooltips should be properties, not widgets. you should set like
> "tooltipText" for your button and Y handles it automagically.

Almost.  You have the tooltip text property for basic tooltips, but you'll
also want a way of associating any widget as the tooltop for any other
widget (so you can have pretty tooltips with pictures, or graphs).

So you have a list of things to try:

  if (widget->tooltipWidget != NULL)
    use widget->tooltipWidget
  else if (getProperty (widget, "TooltipText") != NULL)
    make tooltip from text
  else
    no tooltip

Bear in mind we want tooltips to be tied into accessibility features, too.

Regards,

  Mark.
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