[Qt-interest] tooltips

[phil prentice]

Hi
  My application uses the status bar(by default) to display tooltips.  I would 
very much like to be able to display the tooltips somewhere differently e.g 
maybe in widget (text entry or whatever).  I looked at the tooltips example 
and thought that perhaps I could over-ride the application event handler and 
do something with that i.e.

bool VIwindow::event(QEvent *event) // virtual
{
  if (event->type() == QEvent::ToolTip)
  {
    QHelpEvent *helpEvent = static_cast<QHelpEvent *>(event);
    /*
    int index = itemAt(helpEvent->pos());
    if (index != -1)
      QToolTip::showText(helpEvent->globalPos(), shapeItems[index].toolTip());
    else
      QToolTip::showText(helpEvent->globalPos(), "");
      */
      qDebug("XXXX");
  }
  return QWidget::event(event);
}

I presume that I would have to search every widget in the application (using 
childAt())??? to locate the appropriate widget and grab the tooltip? This 
could be quite slow??? I have several hundred widgets in my application.
Is this a feasable idea???

 Alternatively I guess that I could sub-class all of the standard widgets in 
my application and override the event class for that widget to handle its 
objects tooltips? Could be a lot of work?  

Is there a better way to achieve what I would like to do?

Thanks again
Any help appreciated
Phil