From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:36 +0100 Message-ID: <003a01c5129c$c2c55e80$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108391199 3314 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 14:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 15:26:39 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hBL-0007zF-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:26:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hQs-0002sT-VH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hI5-0006Jj-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:33:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hI3-0006Ip-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:33:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hGK-0005Yb-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.109] (helo=av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0ggZ-0004Zh-6Z; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5D34237E69; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C71A37E55; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p213.telia.com [195.67.196.213]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 148EB37E4A; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:43 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Jason Rumney" , "Stephan Stahl" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33385 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33385 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Rumney" > >As far as i understand tooltips on w32 emacs does not use normal > >w32-tooltips but special emacs frames that are stripped of everything > >(modeline, toolbar, minibuffer,...). Maybe this could be changed.. > > > > > Emacs uses frames for its tooltips on all platforms. To change this on > Windows would make it more difficult to maintain, and would lose > functionality. Could not this functionality be encapsulated so that it could use the platform specific tooltips? It could perhaps be the easiest way to solve the problem? What functionality could be lost?