PtGenListCreateTextBalloon()

Create a popup balloon for a list item

Synopsis:

PtWidget_t *PtGenListCreateTextBalloon(
                PtWidget_t *widget,
                PtWidget_t *parent,
                const PhArea_t *area,
                const char *string,
                int column,
                const char *font);

Description:

This function creates a PtLabel widget to be used as a popup balloon for a list item. The arguments are as follows:

widget

Pointer to the PtGenList widget.

parent

Pointer to the widget's parent window.

area

Pt_ARG_AREA resource for the balloon.

string

String for the balloon.

column

Number of the column to extract from the string (see below).

font

Font for the label. If this is NULL, the font used for the PtGenList widget is used.

The string consists of columns separated by tab characters. The column argument selects a column, with 0 or a negative number indicating the column at the beginning of the string, 1 indicating the characters after the first tab, and so on. For example, if column is 1 and string is "One\tTwo\tThree", the label will contain the string "Two".

Returns:

A pointer to the PtLabel widget.

Classification:

Photon