[Glade-users] Tool tip in Non-sensitive widget

[Damon Chaplin]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:16, Glenn Graf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to have a tooltip active in a GtkEntry widget when 'Sensitive 
> No' is set in the Glade widget properties dialog? I'm not sure if this might 
> be a GTK+ or a Glade question. Is there an alternative? I have a non 
> sensitive entry in my GUI , and I would like the tooltip to show, so far it 
> seems that the tooltip is disabled when the entry is not sensitive.

Glade shouldn't affect the tooltip in the running application, so it is
a GTK+ issue.

I think if a widget is made insensitive, it ignores all X events, which
is why it never shows a tooltip.

This is mentioned in this bug:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65490

Damon