[Glade-users] How to connect tooltips in glade file?

[Tristan Van Berkom]

2009/4/12 Zoltán Vörös <zvoros at uibk.ac.at>:
> Hi All,
>
> For some time, I have been searching for the solution for this problem,
> and while I have found a work-around, I would like to have something
> more straightforward. The problem is that if I set the tooltips in a
> menuitem in Glade, once I compile the code, the tooltips won't show up,
> when I run the code.
> My compiler flags look like this:
> CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 gmodule-2.0` -export-dynamic,
> so I don't use libglade, but the builder file, and I suspect that the
> snag might be that gtk-builder-convert converts the menuitens to
> gtkactions, but I don't exactly know why it messes up the tooltips. Any
> comments on this?
> I am using glade-3.4.5, so I am wondering whether it has been fixed in
> the newer versions, and I should perhaps use them, or if there is
> anything else that I could do to rectify the situation.

Glade 3.6 converts to builder format with menus inline, with
access to new support from GtkAction but no UIManager (it should
be an easier transition than gtk-builder-convert).

Cheers,
          -Tristan