HELP: how do I show a declaration tooltip

[David Nolden]

Am Montag 31 August 2009 20:47:50 schrieb Milian Wolff:
> David Nolden, 31.08.2009:
> > Am Donnerstag 27 August 2009 18:41:47 schrieb Milian Wolff:
> > > What is the preferred way to show a declaration tooltip?
> > >
> > > I put my hopes on DUChain::self()->emitDeclarationSelected() but the
> > > contextbrowser requires views and does a lot stuff internally...
> > >
> > > Essentially I just want to create a tooltip a bit below the cursor
> > > position. Actually I want to fix
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189966 , i.e. show the tooltip
> > > when a user hovers an entry which resembles a declaration in the
> > > classbrowser.
> > >
> > > You find my current approach attached, but sadly it doesn't show
> > > anything :( The signals and such stuff is properly delegated so I think
> > > something in the contextbrowser is messing up... Isn't there a simpler
> > > way to show the tooltip?
> >
> > emitDeclarationSelected does not trigger the tooltip to be shown, it just
> > causes the declaration to be use-highlighted, shown in the
> > context-browser, and hopefully also in the code-flow view soon.
> >
> > Showing a tooltip is slightly more complicated right now, see
> > ContextBrowserPlugin::showToolTip for example. We should move some of
> > that code into a central location, as it already is replicated in a few
> > other places.
>
> Some questions so I can hack on that eventually:
>
> a) Where should I put the code?
Hmm somewhere in kdevplatform/language/duchain/navigation I guess

> b) Where is it already replicated?
At least:
- Context browser
- Project tree

Greetings, David