Hi Roland,
There could be 2 aspects:
1. *Design decision*: as the old issue and merge request mentioned, it is
arguable to have or not to have tooltips in the Menu. Both have pros and
cons.
2. *Technical limitation*: yes, back in those days there could have been
some coding limitations across all
As the person who wrote that part of the doc, may I way in here.
The reason they are missing was that back in the day when I added them, it
led to issues with Mac. And it might still do, have no idea if or not.
Btw, the ext_menubar_items are menubar items that have to be populated via
an extcap c
For example:
*README.plugin*
6.1 Implement a plugin GUI menu
The menu entries themselves are generated with the following code structure:
ext_menu_t * ext_menu, *os_menu = NULL;
ext_menu = ext_menubar_register_menu (
, "Some Menu Entry", true );
*ext_menubar_add_entry*(ex
> external plugins or uses Lua code, documentation for those mentions and
supports tooltips
Where in the documentation?
On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM Tamás Regős wrote:
> I was trying to Google it but I was not able to find. :)
>
> Thanks for those links, seems to be quite old but I guess the o
I was trying to Google it but I was not able to find. :)
Thanks for those links, seems to be quite old but I guess the overall
mindset has not changed then.
Just for curiosity, I tested it with setToolTipsVisible(true) in cpp code
and it worked on Windows.
The reason I was checking this is that
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16590 (Tooltips on menus
don't work)
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/6221 (Tooltips for
menu items that open browser windows)
On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM Tamás Regős wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> Does anyone know why th
