Re: Tooltip for GtkTextView contents

2017-02-21 Thread Daniel Kasak
Thanks for the response. It came down to a simple logic error. In this code: my $start_iter; if ( $iter->starts_word ) { $start_iter = $iter; } else { $iter->backward_word_start; $start_iter = $iter; } $iter->forward_word_end; ... I set $start_iter t

Re: Tooltip for GtkTextView contents

2017-02-17 Thread Eric Cashon via gtk-list
Hi Dan, I am not very good with Perl but it looks like the iters aren't getting moved forward and backwards on the word the cursor is over. In C, the callback would look something like static gboolean query_tooltip(GtkWidget *textview, gint x, gint y, gboolean keyboard_mode, GtkTooltip *too

Re: Tooltip for GtkTextView contents

2017-02-16 Thread Daniel Kasak
Also should note - the detection of whether the pointer is over a word or not ( $iter->inside_word ) *is* working correctly ... as my app appears to be returning correctly when I'm pointing at whitespace. It just prints blank lines when I point at some text. Dan On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM, D

Tooltip for GtkTextView contents

2017-02-16 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hi all. I'd like to provide help on special text ( tokens in code ) in a GtkSourceView / GtkTextView. I see my question is basically: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2010-May/msg00107.html ... and the important part of the response to this question was: "Simply set text view's "has-too