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 19:02:36 +0100 Message-ID: <00c001c512bf$69e8dfd0$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> <007e01c512a3$58635040$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <4210C17E.2070909@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 1108404697 19986 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 18:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 19:11:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0kgz-0002EN-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:11:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0kwZ-0003bC-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0kts-0002kb-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ktZ-0002az-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ktW-0002TF-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.110] (helo=av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0kYc-0004Md-2D; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:02:50 -0500 Original-Received: by av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5132537E8F; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:02:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4216C37E46; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:02:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p38.telia.com [195.252.57.38]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EB9537E69; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:02:48 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Jason Rumney" 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:33402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33402 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Rumney" > >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. > > > > > That documentation is for the "Common Controls" API, which is a > constantly changing API, the availability of which depends on which > version of Windows you have installed, and which other software you have > installed that might have installed later versions. > > As such, I do not beleive that it fits the definition of "anything that > is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major > components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on > which the executable runs", and certainly we cannot redistribute some > version of it to guarantee minimum functionality above what was included > in the original release of Windows NT. Can you please explain more? The only information I can find says that "minimum operating systems" is "NT 3.51, Windows 95" (that is for TOOLINFO structure for example) or "Windows 95, NT 3.1" (CreateWindowEx).