[Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx>]

As the person who wrote that part of the doc, may I way in here. 

The reason they are missing was that back in the day when I added them, it led to issues with Mac. And it might still do, have no idea if or not.

Btw, the ext_menubar_items are menubar items that have to be populated via an extcap capture interface. They are not regular entries

any further questions, feel free to ask

cheers

Roland 

Am Mi., 4. Juni 2025 um 16:33 Uhr schrieb Tamás Regős <regost@xxxxxxxxx>:

For example:

README.plugin

6.1 Implement a plugin GUI menu

The menu entries themselves are generated with the following code structure:

    ext_menu_t * ext_menu, *os_menu = NULL;

    ext_menu = ext_menubar_register_menu (
            <your_proto_item>, "Some Menu Entry", true );
    ext_menubar_add_entry(ext_menu, "Test Entry 1",
            "This is a tooltip", menu_cb, <user_data>);

plugin_if.h

/* Registers a new menubar entry.
 *
 * This registers a new menubar entry, which will have the given name, and
 * call the provided callback on activation
 *
 * @param parent_menu the parent menu for this entry
 * @param name the entry name (the internal used one) for the menu item
 * @param label the entry label (the displayed name) for the menu item
 * @param tooltip a tooltip to be displayed on mouse-over
 * @param callback the action which will be invoked after click on the menu item
 */
WS_DLL_PUBLIC void ext_menubar_add_entry(
        ext_menu_t * parent_menu,
        const char *label,
        const char *tooltip,
        ext_menubar_action_cb callback,
        void *user_data);

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsar_html/plugin__if_8h_source.html

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsar_html/plugin__if_8h.html

WS_DLL_PUBLIC void

ext_menubar_add_entry (ext_menu_t *parent_menu, const char *label, const char *tooltip, ext_menubar_action_cb callback, void *user_data)

Beside of this, it seems there is one line of code also missing, to set the toolTip of the related QAction()...

wireshark_main_window.cpp

void WiresharkMainWindow::externalMenuHelper(ext_menu_t * menu, QMenu  * subMenu, int depth)

...

        } else if (item->type == EXT_MENUBAR_ITEM || item->type == EXT_MENUBAR_URL) {
            itemAction = subMenu->addAction(item->name);
            itemAction->setData(QVariant::fromValue(static_cast<void *>(item)));
            itemAction->setText(item->label);
            itemAction->setToolTip(item->tooltip);  /* this line is missing */
            connect(itemAction, &QAction::triggered, this, &WiresharkMainWindow::externalMenuItemTriggered);
        }

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 at 18:51, chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> external plugins or uses Lua code, documentation for those mentions and supports tooltips

Where in the documentation?

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM Tamás Regős <regost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was trying to Google it but I was not able to find. :)

Thanks for those links, seems to be quite old but I guess the overall mindset has not changed then.

Just for curiosity, I tested it with setToolTipsVisible(true) in cpp code and it worked on Windows.

The reason I was checking this is that if someone develops external plugins or uses Lua code, documentation for those mentions and supports tooltips but it never ends up working obviously. So it's confusing a bit.

Not sure if it's worth raising a follow up issue on Gitlab?

Could there be a new preference option added to turn it on/off?

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 19:46, chuck c <bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16590 (Tooltips on menus don't work)

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/6221 (Tooltips for menu items that open browser windows)

On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM Tamás Regős <regost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Developers,

Does anyone know why the toolTips for the Menu items are not enabled?

Is this deliberate or a bug?

It's only enabled for 'Help' in the ui file:

   <widget class="QMenu" name="menuHelp">
    <property name="title">
     <string>&amp;Help</string>
    </property>
    <property name="toolTipsVisible">
     <bool>true</bool>
    </property>

toolTipsVisible : bool
This property holds whether tooltips of menu actions should be visible
This property specifies whether action menu entries show their tooltip.
By default, this property is false.

Thank you.

Regards,

Tamas

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