GTK+ 2.12 brings a completely new tooltip implementation which allows many things that were not possible with the old GtkTooltips interface. The new possibilities are explained in more detail in the section about GtkTooltip. A number of complications of the old API have been removed:
Here is an example of setting a tooltip on a widget with the old API: GtkTooltips *tooltips = gtk_tooltips_new (); gtk_tooltips_set_tip (tooltips, widget, "Some tips", NULL);
Using the new tooltips API, it is no longer necessary to create an object: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text (widget, "Some tips");
Similarly, setting a tooltip on a GtkToolItem gets simplified from gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip (toolitem, toolbar->tooltips, "tool tip", NULL); to gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip_text (toolitem, text);
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