[grapefruit] Can't fit tooltips into grapefruit "box" model

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> [2009-06-19 09:14:51+0200]
> Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 22:10 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
> > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 21:30 schrieb Roman Cheplyaka:
> > > > I would not create a Tooltips object (tooltip group) everytime, the
> > > > tooltip signal changes, but only once per widget.
> > >
> > > Hence my question "how to do this in grapefruit" asked in the first
> > > mail.
> >
> > Usually, you would create the tooltip group together with the widget.
> > Something similar is done in the implementation of list views and set
> > views. There, not only a widget is created, but also a corresponding model,
> > for example. Could you please have a look at the implementation of
> > Graphics.UI.Grapefruit.GTK.Backend.Container.listViewBrick to get an idea?
> >
> > The problem regarding tooltips is that the tooltips signal should probably
> > be automatically available for any kind of widget, like IsEnable is. It’s
> > currently not supported that such an all-widgets signal depends on some
> > other object than the widget object. I’ll try to look at this problem when
> > I find the time. If you have a solution for this, please tell me.
> 
> Hello Roman,
> 
> have you made any progress regarding tooltips?

Yes, I created a brick on top of my own data type, Label, which
holds (besides GTK label) GTK tooltips and event box objects.
See http://code.haskell.org/juicybar/JuicyBar/GTKDock.hs
Works perfectly!

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