Tooltips that wont disappear!?

[malachy1681]

Okay, I've used the following line to set the global tooltip widget:

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CEGUI::System::getSingleton().setTooltip ( "QMXGUI/Tooltip" );


But now I get empty tooltips popping up on everything that doesn't even have 'TooltipText' assigned. I also take it I have to do something to have the tooltip disappear after the mouse leaves the widget?

[CrazyEddie]

This happens when the underlying renderer does not do alpha blending (as is the case for Irrlicht). It's a bit of a bug and I'll fix it before 0.4.0 is released.

[malachy1681]

Okay, will I'm using OGRE, which I thought did support alpha blending. I did get around it by not defining a global tooltip and just created a tooltip object and then associated it with the widget I wanted, but is there a way to get it to follow the mouse and then disappear when the cursor leaves the widget?

[CrazyEddie]

Yeah, tooltips in Ogre should work fine - it's one of the platforms I test on regularly and I've noticed no strangeness. I assume you're correctly injecting time pulses?

To get the tooltip to follow the cursor within a window, you have to basically subscribe the EventMouseMove for the desired window(s), and then in the handler do something like this:

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Tooltip* tt = theWindow->getTooltip();

if (tt)
    tt->positionSelf();


You'll need a recent CVS (v0-4 branch) version for this to work, as the positionSelf method has only recently been made public.