From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: alan@idiocy.org, 1305@debbugs.gnu.org, mwd@md5i.com,
stefan@marxist.se, jasonspiro4@gmail.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:41:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc0d84324035c7d87b5d@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dkkci6w.fsf@gnu.org>
>> "Flashing a window means changing the appearance of its caption bar as
>> if the window were changing from inactive to active status, or vice
>> versa. [...] Typically, a window is flashed to inform the user that the
>> window requires attention but that it does not currently have the
>> keyboard focus." [1]
>>
>> [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-flashwindow
>>
>> But even that doesn't describe the effect accurately, the feeling I
>> have is closer to "the frame briefly vibrates". As I said, I use
>> Windows only rarely, so my feeling is perhaps not right.
>
> What I see is exactly what the MS documentation describes: the frame's
> title bar blinks (a.k.a. "flickers"), which is very hard to notice; and
> the corresponding tab on the task bar flashes, which is much more
> prominent. IME, this happens in all Windows versions.
>
What I see on Windows 10 (without any customizations) is that the title
bar flickers, the menu bar flickers, and the shadow effect around the
frame flickers. All this gives the feeling that the frame "vibrates".
And yes, the corresponding tab (on Windows 10 the default is an icon)
flashes, its background color changes. Indeed this is more prominent, the
purpose of FlashWindow seems to be, as the documentation describes, "to
inform the user that the window requires attention but that it does not
currently have the keyboard focus", or IOW to inform the user that a
window that it isn't the foreground window requires attention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-30 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 176+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-09 1:50 bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead Jason Spiro
2008-11-09 2:00 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-11-09 3:57 ` bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead Drew Adams
2008-11-09 4:08 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-09 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 19:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-09 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-10 6:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-11 21:20 ` bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should usevisual bellinstead Drew Adams
2008-11-10 8:34 ` bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bellinstead Lennart Borgman
2008-11-10 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-10 16:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-11 18:38 ` Jason A. Spiro
2008-11-10 22:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-11 18:50 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-12 3:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-13 7:41 ` Jason Spiro
2021-04-17 6:06 ` bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead Stefan Kangas
2021-04-17 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-17 11:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-17 12:31 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-17 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-17 12:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-17 13:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-17 13:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-17 13:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-17 13:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-17 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-17 14:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 10:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 12:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 13:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 15:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 15:42 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-17 19:17 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-04-17 17:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-17 20:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-17 21:09 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2021-04-17 21:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-17 21:52 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2021-04-17 22:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-17 23:30 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-18 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 12:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 13:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 13:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 15:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-18 15:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-19 12:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-19 13:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-19 13:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-25 18:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-25 20:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-19 13:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 17:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-18 18:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 18:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 18:45 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 19:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 19:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-18 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-18 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-19 12:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-19 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-25 18:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-25 18:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-25 19:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-25 19:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-25 19:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 16:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-19 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 16:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 16:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-19 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-18 15:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-18 15:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-18 15:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 16:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-18 16:38 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-18 17:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-19 12:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-19 12:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-19 12:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-19 13:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-19 13:16 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-19 13:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-19 13:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-19 14:41 ` Alan Third
2021-04-20 14:21 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-20 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-20 19:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 1:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-21 6:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 14:05 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 14:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-21 14:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 14:35 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 14:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 14:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 21:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-21 14:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-21 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-25 18:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-25 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 1:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-27 9:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-27 15:15 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-27 23:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-28 10:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-28 13:12 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 16:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 19:48 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 20:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 21:46 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 23:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 23:35 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-29 23:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-01 7:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-01 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-01 16:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-01 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 16:48 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-02 10:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-30 7:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 22:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-30 23:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 23:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-01 0:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-01 0:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-01 7:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-01 0:05 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-01 1:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-01 2:05 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-29 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 7:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 22:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-29 23:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-30 6:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 13:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 5:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-30 6:51 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-30 7:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-30 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-30 8:41 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-21 15:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-21 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-21 16:14 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-21 20:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 22:03 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-21 14:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-21 16:01 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 20:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-19 12:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-19 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-18 15:27 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-18 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-18 11:10 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-18 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-18 15:14 ` bug#1305: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-17 13:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-17 16:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
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