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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: 8176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8176: 24.0.50; GUI toolkit differences
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:05:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hb72uoo2.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762ry8arr.fsf@rapttech.com.au> (Tim Cross's message of "Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:13:44 +1100")

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> Either this is a bug in GTK or how emacs interfaces with the library
> (seems unlikely, more likely a desing constraint of GTK) and should be
> fixed or a footnote added to the manual to let developers know of this
> limitation in some toolkits, noteably GTK based ones.
>
> The following code was evaluated within the scratch buffer. I confirmed
> it works fine under emacs 24 built with lucid, but fails to work when
> built with GTK2+. Others reported it worked find under win32, but failed
> on ns. 
>
> (defun tx-greet ()
>   (interactive) 
>   (message "Hello Tim!"))
>
> (defun tx-menu ()
>   (interactive)
>   (define-key lisp-interaction-mode-map [menu-bar tx]
>     '(menu-item "TX Test" tx-greet)))

I can confirm that this doesn't work under GTK Emacs.

Do you have a suggestion where this limitation should be documented? 

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-04 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-05  4:13 bug#8176: 24.0.50; GUI toolkit differences Tim Cross
2011-07-04 14:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-05  0:00   ` Tim Cross
2011-07-05  5:56     ` Jan Djärv
2011-07-05  6:02       ` Tim Cross
2011-07-05  8:48         ` Jan D.
2011-07-06  7:02           ` Tim Cross
2011-07-05 14:14     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06  6:56       ` Tim Cross
2011-07-12  3:34         ` Tim Cross
2011-07-15 16:33           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 23:51             ` Tim Cross
2011-07-16 17:47               ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-16 18:04                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-16 18:14                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-16 18:32                   ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 15:12     ` Jason Rumney

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