Also should note - the detection of whether the pointer is over a word or not ( $iter->inside_word ) *is* working correctly ... as my app appears to be returning correctly when I'm pointing at whitespace. It just prints blank lines when I point at some text. Dan On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to provide help on special text ( tokens in code ) in a > GtkSourceView / GtkTextView. I see my question is basically: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2010-May/msg00107.html > > ... and the important part of the response to this question was: > > "Simply set text view's "has-tooltip" property to "TRUE" and connect handler to > "query-tooltip" signal. Use coordinates provided by callback to find > the word that cursor hovers over and then do the lookup. I think > things should be relatively simple." > > So I've done attempted this in Perl: > > --- > > sub on_PARAM_VALUE_query_tooltip { > > my ( $self, $sourceview, $window_x, $window_y, $keyboard_mode, > $tooltip ) = @_; > > my ( $buffer_x, $buffer_y ) = $sourceview->window_to_buffer_coords > ( 'GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT', $window_x, $window_y ); > > my ( $trailing, $iter ) = $sourceview->get_iter_at_position( > $buffer_x, $buffer_y ); > > if ( ! $iter->inside_word ) { > return FALSE; > } > > my $start_iter; > > if ( $iter->starts_word ) { > $start_iter = $iter; > } else { > $iter->backward_word_start; > $start_iter = $iter; > } > > $iter->forward_word_end; > > my $text = $sourceview->get_buffer->get_text( $start_iter, $iter, 1 ); > > print "$text\n"; > > } > > --- > > This code runs, produces iters where expected, but then never gets any text. > > What have I done wrong? > > Thanks :) > > Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
