From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltip pops up when moving mouse Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:12:46 +0100 Message-ID: <00f301c52b14$96345700$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <002501c52984$826bc550$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <001b01c52a28$f7967ba0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <4238A6B5.2060905@swipnet.se> 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 1111080360 12626 80.91.229.2 (17 Mar 2005 17:26:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 18:26:00 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DByba-0007hx-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:16:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DByru-00082r-9y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:33:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DByp5-0005Du-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DByp1-0005Bm-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DByp1-0005BO-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:30:11 -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 1DByYK-0001IZ-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: by av7-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 72C1E37E7C; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:12:55 +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 5F31B37E6B; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:12:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p139.telia.com [195.252.56.139]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8449537E4A; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:12:54 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Jan D." 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34672 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34672 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan D." > >You can (perhaps) see another version of this problem if you slowly move the > >mouse over a link. The tooltip pops up and immediately disappears again. > > > >That I am seeing this problem may depend on both that I have a slow pc and > >that I am using w32. I believe it is a thread issue. Mouse movements are > >detected by the UI thread, but I believe that the lisp timer for the tooltip > >popup runs in the lisp thread. I do not know if the problem is there on X > >Windows as well but I would believe it. > > > > It is not. Thanks. Then I must say I do not understand how this works. As far as I see for this to work reliably tooltip.el:tooltip-start-delayed-tip must record the mouse position (because if the mouse has moved when the timer fires the tooltip should not be shown). However it does not. Could someone please try to explain this to me? Am I missing something here?