Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ????

["Kevin Burton" <burton@spinn3r.com>]

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What platform are you on?  What's your emacs-version?
Mine is:

GNU Emacs 22.3.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of
2008-09-21 on plume.sr.unh.edu - Aquamacs Distribution 1.5


On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com>wrote:

> For me it works also if the window is split. The only problem I have
> seen is with the margins. Maybe this is platform dependent?
>
> I use this in nXhtml where it used for popup menus for completion in
> XHTML. If you want to it is easy to test there.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Kevin Burton <burton@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> > Yes..... this DOES work but for a window that's not split.... as soon as
> you
> > split the window the coord is for the first window (not the second).
> > I guess I could look at the current window configuration and double the
> > current Y if the window is split in half....
> > Kind of hacky but could work for a proof of concept.
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Lennart Borgman <
> lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Kevin Burton <burton@spinn3r.com>
> wrote:
> >> > In the predictive package?
> >> > I think one just needs to compute the left-margin width.
> >>
> >> Here is what I have. There is indeed a problem with the left margin.
> >> What change do you propose?
> >>
> >> (defun point-to-coord (point)
> >>  "Return coordinates of POINT in selected window.
> >> The coordinates are in the form \(\(XOFFSET YOFFSET) WINDOW).
> >> This form is suitable for `popup-menu'."
> >>  ;; Fix-me: showtip.el adds (window-inside-pixel-edges
> >>  ;; (selected-window)). Why?
> >>  (let* ((pn (posn-at-point point))
> >>         (x-y (posn-x-y pn))
> >>         (x (car x-y))
> >>         (y (cdr x-y))
> >>         (pos (list (list x (+ y 20)) (selected-window))))
> >>    pos))
> >>
> >> > I wrote a tooltip-at-point package a few years ago (but never got it t
> >> > work
> >> > reliably) and added this into the mix....
> >> > Kevin
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Lennart Borgman
> >> > <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> >> >> > Kevin Burton wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> You mean by specifying top and left?  I think that is what I was
> >> >> >> going
> >> >> >> to
> >> >> >> do to position the tooltip but first I need to find out the x/y of
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> current point.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > (posn-at-point &optional POS WINDOW)
> >> >>
> >> >> I think there is a bug with left margin. (Though I have not had time
> >> >> to submit a bug report for this.)
> >
> >
> >
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>



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