From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:04 +0000 Message-ID: <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108380097 26719 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 11:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 12:21:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0eIE-0006Vu-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:21:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0eKd-0003MT-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0dOe-0005Ie-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0dOE-00051D-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0dMw-0003Vi-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:22:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0czV-000055-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 18LH0K68; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:04 -0000 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.196 ([192.168.111.196] helo=[192.168.111.196]) by ASSP-nospam ; 14 Feb 05 09:58:04 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stephan Stahl In-Reply-To: <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> 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:33375 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33375 Stephan Stahl wrote: >I reported this too a while ago but got no answer: >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-06/msg00060.html > >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.