bug#6452: toolbar accidental clicking in windows

bug#6452: toolbar accidental clicking in windows

[Jesse W. Wilson]

Dear emacs developers,

I have noticed on my tablet PC running Windows 7 that tapping on the 
menubar sometimes causes a toolbar button to be clicked inadvertently.

Steps to reproduce:
1) visit the *scratch* buffer
2) ensure tool-bar-mode and menu-bar-mode are both enabled
3) Tap a menu-bar menu

Most of the time, this results in the appropriate menu contents flashing 
briefly to the screen, then disappearing, and a nearby tool-bar-button 
action being executed. When the tool-bar-mode is disabled, the menus 
work just fine.

Windows version 7 professional
Emacs version: 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 
[2 times]

I can disable the toolbar, but on a tablet PC it's nice to have those 
buttons around.

I do apologize if I have not mailed the correct team, or if I haven't 
included enough information-- after years of using emacs, this is the 
first bug I have ever encountered.

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Jesse Wilson
Bartels Lab: Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Colorado State University
jessew@engr.colostate.edu

bug#6452: toolbar accidental clicking in windows

[Stefan Kangas]

"Jesse W. Wilson" <syrex314@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear emacs developers,
>
> I have noticed on my tablet PC running Windows 7 that tapping on the menubar
> sometimes causes a toolbar button to be clicked inadvertently.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) visit the *scratch* buffer
> 2) ensure tool-bar-mode and menu-bar-mode are both enabled
> 3) Tap a menu-bar menu
>
> Most of the time, this results in the appropriate menu contents flashing briefly
> to the screen, then disappearing, and a nearby tool-bar-button action being
> executed. When the tool-bar-mode is disabled, the menus work just fine.
>
> Windows version 7 professional
> Emacs version: 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 [2 times]
>
> I can disable the toolbar, but on a tablet PC it's nice to have those buttons
> around.

This was reported 9 years ago, but unfortunately never got a reply at the time.

Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If yes, do you
see this behaviour in other programs as well, or just in Emacs?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#6452: toolbar accidental clicking in windows

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> "Jesse W. Wilson" <syrex314@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dear emacs developers,
>>
>> I have noticed on my tablet PC running Windows 7 that tapping on the menubar
>> sometimes causes a toolbar button to be clicked inadvertently.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1) visit the *scratch* buffer
>> 2) ensure tool-bar-mode and menu-bar-mode are both enabled
>> 3) Tap a menu-bar menu
>>
>> Most of the time, this results in the appropriate menu contents flashing briefly
>> to the screen, then disappearing, and a nearby tool-bar-button action being
>> executed. When the tool-bar-mode is disabled, the menus work just fine.
>>
>> Windows version 7 professional
>> Emacs version: 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 [2 times]
>>
>> I can disable the toolbar, but on a tablet PC it's nice to have those buttons
>> around.
>
> This was reported 9 years ago, but unfortunately never got a reply at the time.
>
> Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If yes, do you
> see this behaviour in other programs as well, or just in Emacs?

More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks.  I
also think it sounds likely that this issue is not specific to Emacs,
but rather is a (perhaps fixed?) general problem for Windows on
tablets.  I'm therefore closing this bug

If my above assumption is incorrect, and this is still an issue with a
modern version of Emacs, please reopen the bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas