Hi Aaron, You can use GtkTooltips ! Here is a small example: http://www.gtk.org/tutorial1.0/gtk_tut-9.html Hope that helps. Cheers. Simith -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Yang [mailto:porsche1904@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:51 AM To: gtk-app-devel-list@xxxxxxxxx; gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx Subject: what widget to use? hi, when I leave the mouse cursor over an icon long enough, a yellow description box appears. Does anyone know which widget do I use for that? regards, aaron __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list