On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:37:42AM -0700, peter wrote: > Hi, > > I am building an application with GTK+ and I want to > communicate messages to the user in the form of tool > tips which are independent of buttons ... > I don't want my messages to be in a message box but I > want the message to show in a tool tip which is > independent of the place where the action happened (I > want my messages to appear at the bottom right of the > screen). > > How can I do this. here's an idea: you should be able to do something like this using a dialog window. - add a single GtkLabel to the top level container for the message - decorate the label using markup, the dialog background color, etc - make the dialog: - non-modal - not decorated - size and place the dialog using whatever standard methods are available - destroy the dialog using a timeout callback seems like a lot of trouble though. why not display your message in a GtkMessageDialog instead? I sometimes destroy non-modal version of this widget with a timeout callback. it works well... and functions quite a bit like what you describe, but does not look like a tool-tip. - Ben _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
