[Solved] Tooltip display problem?

[pratik041]

Suppose i have a window containing one button. I have set a tool tip to that button. When i click that button a new window is opened. In this case once the focus pass to new window when i take the mouse pointer to button again the tool tip is not visible(without clicking). How can i make it visible?

[luisvaldes88]

Do you mean something like this??

!http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/5848/windowu.png!

Does the new windows have the button too?
If so, I miss it... :P

[dangelog]

Not sure how to do with that. It always annoyed me that (under Linux/X11, at least) the behaviour is inconsistent between toolkits. GTK-based applications will display a tooltip even if the window hasn't focus. Qt-based ones won't.

[pratik041]

ya luisvaldes88 exactly like that, the new window may or may not have button. do you know the solution

[luisvaldes88]

hi pratik041, as peppe said, Qt app don't display tooltips where they are not focused.
A solution may be, try to make the button

@bool QWidget::setMouseTracking(true)@

and then do something in

@void QWidget::mouseMoveEvent ( QMouseEvent * event )@

I did not try, but in theory, whenever you pass your mouse over the button, it will create a move event that will be handled in

@void QWidget::mouseMoveEvent ( QMouseEvent * event )@

If you try it let us know

best regards.

[pratik041]

Actually the following is working and i think it is the best solution to do this @window.setAttribute (Qt::WA_AlwaysShowToolTips, true);@

[luisvaldes88]

Hey thanks.

I'll take a note on this. =,)

how did you find it?

[pratik041]

In Qt namespace documentation see Qt::WidgetAttribute type