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 15:41:53 +0100 Message-ID: <007e01c512a3$58635040$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> <4210A28C.7020500@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 1108392276 7232 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 14:44:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 15:44:35 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hSL-0003BO-On for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:44:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hg2-0000A4-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hfa-00005r-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hfS-0008Rz-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0hfS-0008RD-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.116] (helo=av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0hQA-0001nA-7N; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 83E0F37E6D; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:41:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av1-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7583637E42; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:41:53 +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 615AA37E43; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:41:52 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Jason Rumney" , "David Kastrup" 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:33386 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33386 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Rumney" > I don't think there is a function for popping them up in the system. > Many armchair critics are not aware of the distinction between > Microsoft's proprietary C++ GUI toolkit (MFC) and what is available > directly from the OS APIs, so we often get slated for not using feature > X, when reimplementing it using the OS APIs is non-trivial. There is a window class (is that the term?) TOOLTIPS_CLASS which can be used with CreateWindowEx. I am not an expert on this but there are examples in MSDN.