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    Hi. Recently I gave opera a try and discovered a nifty Tab-preview widget that is displayed instead of a tooltip when the mouse is hovering over a tab for a certain amount of time.

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    What is the correct way to implement this? Maybe creating a parentless widget and manually displaying it at the position retrieved by the QMouseEvent and destroying it upon a leaveEvent or when a key is pressed? The normal tooltips are pretty limited.

    Thanx in advance
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    Default Re: Tooltip-like widget

    Yes, that would be the way to go.
    Tooltips are indeed very limited.

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    Default Re: Tooltip-like widget

    Using helpEvent would be better. And if you can create a pixmap of the contents you want to display, you can just put it inside a regular tool tip.

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    Thank you
    I'll try both approaches and see which one best fits the purpose.

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    Default Re: Tooltip-like widget

    This is exactly what QxtToolTip was written for..
    J-P Nurmi

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    cool.
    Now this is finally a reason to install the Qt Extension Library which I was planning to do anyway

    Thanx alot

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