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Problem You have displayed tooltips for items in a treeview in Part 1.
However, the toolstips get displayed in the column headers too. Also, the tooltip does not disappear if you move the mouse out from the treeview from the top. You would like to fix these as shown below:

Solution
- The tooltips get displayed in the column headers because
function on_enter($view, $event) continues to give x and y in the column header.
- In order to know if the mouse is in the column header region, we make use of another function GtkWidget::get_pointer()
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| <?php $window = new GtkWindow(); $window->set_size_request(400, 200); $window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit')); $window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Display tooltips in a GtkTreeView - Part 2"); $title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10")); $title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff")); $title->set_size_request(-1, 40); $vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0); $vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(''), 0, 0); // add a small gap
// Set up treeview
$data = array( array('row0', 'item 42', 2, 3.1), array('row1', 'item 36', 20, 6.21), array('row2', 'item 21', 8, 9.36), array('row3', 'item 10', 11, 12.4), array('row4', 'item 7', 5, 15.5), array('row5', 'item 4', 17, 18.6), array('row6', 'item 3', 20, 21.73));
$view1 = display_table ($vbox, $data);
$window->show_all(); Gtk::main();
// the class to display tooltips in treeview
class TreeviewTooltips {
function TreeviewTooltips($view) { // create the tooltip window
$this->tooltip_window = new GtkWindow(Gtk::WINDOW_POPUP); $this->tooltip_window->set_name('gtk-tooltips'); $this->tooltip_window->set_resizable(False); $this->tooltip_window->set_border_width(4); $this->tooltip_window->set_app_paintable(True); $this->tooltip_window->connect('expose-event', array(&$this, 'on_expose_event'));
$label = new GtkLabel(''); $label->set_line_wrap(True); $label->set_alignment(0.5, 0.5); $label->set_use_markup(True); $label->show(); $this->tooltip_window->add($label);
$this->set_view($view); $this->hidden = 1; }
function set_view($view) { $view->connect('motion-notify-event', array(&$this, 'on_motion')); $view->connect('leave-notify-event', array(&$this, 'on_leave')); }
function on_motion($view, $event) { $scroll_win_pos = $view->get_pointer(); // note 1
if ($scroll_win_pos[1]<=25) { // note 2
$this->tooltip_window->hide(); // yes, hide it
$this->hidden = 1; return true; } else { if ($this->hidden) $this->tooltip_window->show(); // no, show it
$this->hidden = 0; }
$path_array = $view->get_path_at_pos($event->x, $event->y);
if (count($path_array)==0) return true; // note 3
$path = $path_array[0][0]; $col = $path_array[1]; $col_title = $col->get_title();
if ($col!=null) { $size = $this->tooltip_window->size_request(); // set the location of the tooltip
$this->tooltip_window->move($event->x_root - $size->width/2, $event->y_root + 12); $this->tooltip_window->child->set_text("row $path col $col_title"); $this->tooltip_window->show(); } }
function on_leave($view, $event) { $this->tooltip_window->hide(); }
function on_expose_event($tooltip_window, $event) { $size = $tooltip_window->size_request(); $tooltip_window->style->paint_flat_box($tooltip_window->window, Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, Gtk::SHADOW_OUT, null, $tooltip_window, 'tooltip', 0, 0, $size->width, $size->height); } }
function display_table($vbox, $data) {
// Set up a scroll window
$scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow(); $scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC, Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC); $vbox->pack_start($scrolled_win);
// Creates the list store
if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) { $model = new GtkListStore(GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_LONG, GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE); } else { $model = new GtkListStore(Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_LONG, Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE); } $field_header = array('Row #', 'Description', 'Qty', 'Price'); $field_justification = array(0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0);
// Creates the view to display the list store
$view = new GtkTreeView($model); $scrolled_win->add($view);
// Creates the columns
for ($col=0; $col<count($field_header); ++$col) { $cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText(); $cell_renderer->set_property("xalign", $field_justification[$col]); $column = new GtkTreeViewColumn($field_header[$col],
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Explanation The above example is based on How to display tooltips in GtkTreeView - Part 1?.
What's new here:
- The
$event->y given by function on_enter($view, $event) has its 0 at the top of the first row, whereas GtkWidget::get_pointer() starts its 0 at the top of the scroll window (i.e. the top of the column header). This difference allows us to detect if the mouse is in the header region.
- Note that 25 is the standard height of the column header. Yes, this is a hardcode. The value might be different on your system if you use a different font. If you don't like the hardcode, you might want to refer to How to display tooltips in GtkTreeView - Part 3 - no hardcoding of header height?
- This line fixes the bug as pointed out by Stefan Vasilev in the comments below.
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February 28, 2007 9:52am
Hi,
This example is useful, but with bug!!!!
I dont know what is the solution!
The bug:
When you resize the window and the treeview is smaller of the scrolled_win, then if you put the mouse pointer to the lower part of the scrolled_win bottom of the treeview, the application crash.
Here is the bug message:
Call to a member function get_title() on a non-object in /data/app/tooltip.php on line 82
February 28, 2007 6:15pm
Thanks for pointing out the bug. I developed most of my codes on windows. And the bug only occurs on linux. That's why I didn't notice it. Anyway, has fixed the bug. Please see note 3 above. Just add one more line to make sure the mouse is in the treeview.
March 05, 2007 7:49am
Thank's for the info. I need working app on Windows.
March 05, 2007 7:53am
You mean the above example doesn't work on your windows...?