From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:57:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C1AF03.7070804@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BDF3DE.2050704@gmail.com>
> TL;DR: How do I create a frame without a border, in the style of
> x_create_tip_frame (called by x-show-tip in the C sources), from
> Elisp?
What is a border? ‘x_create_tip_frame’ creates a frame with up to two
types of borders, the one specified via the ‘internal-border-width’ and
the other one specified via the ‘border-width’ frame parameter (where
the latter is AFAICT used for tooltips only). At the same time,
‘x_create_tip_frame’ tries to suppress decorations of the window manager
which is probably what you want.
> I'm looking at ways in which we could use real tooptip popups instead
> of overlays to display company-mode completion lists. This would have
> many advantages, including better interaction with font sizes, no
> issues with recursive display specs, good support for variable-width
> fonts, and so on. I believe Stefan has spoken in favour of that
> approach in the past, too.
Is there any reason you cannot use menus for this purpose?
> The natural candidate for this task is x-show-tip, and it probably
> meets most of the requirements; but not all. In particular, there can
> be at most one tooltip displayed at any time; this means that we'd
> break other packages that display tooltips while completion is
> ongoing. Examples include company-quickhelp, which displays
> documentation for the currently selected entry next to completion
> candidates.
>
> `x-show-tip` is currently implemented in C; as far as I can see,
> however, it essentially creates a frame and displays it at a given
> location; given this, I thought it would be possible to reimplement it
> in ELisp. Unfortunately, I've been hitting a wall when it comes to
> displaying a borderless frame. I asked on
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20167/how-do-i-create-a-borderless-frame,
> to no avail.
‘x-show-tip’ is highly tailored to emulating "conventional" tooltips and
strongly tied to ‘x-hide-tip’. Parts of its implementation (in
particular the Lucid menubar issue) are highly fragile, so better don't
tinker with it. Also a reimplementation in ELisp hardly makes sense
because the API calls are used to hide the implementation details wrt
X11 and Windows. You can't use the ‘border-width’ parameter with the
latter so we have to emulate the X11 behavior somehow with the
"thin-line" border approach provided by the Windows API. And the
GTK/OSX tooltips will behave specially anyway.
> My original guess was that the relevant part of the C code was this call:
>
> x_default_parameter (f, parms, Qborder_width, make_number (0), "borderWidth", "BorderWidth", RES_TYPE_NUMBER);
>
> Unfortunately, neither (set-frame-param (selected-frame) 'border-width
> 0) nor (make-frame '((border-width . 0))) (both inspired from the call
> above) yield a borderless frame.
These are overridden by the window manager. ‘border-width’ is the most
obscure of our frame parameters, it's implementation is beyond our
control. You can set it via ‘tooltip-frame-parameters’ and then it is
usually honored for X11 tooltips (but not on Windows).
> Is there a way to create a borderless frame from Elisp?
If a truly borderless frame is what you want, we can do that for X11 and
Windows. GTK has ‘gtk_window_set_decorated’ and we could try using that
as well. I have no idea how to do that on OSX, maybe Anders has.
You would, however, have to say how a borderless frame should look like.
At least the Windows tooltip frame is _not_ borderless. And on X11 I
wouldn't know how to remove caption and borders separately. IIUC you
can only remove them both or neither.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-15 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 15:01 Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp? Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-13 2:15 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-13 3:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-13 3:57 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 20:12 ` Creating a "borderless" frame (without WM chrome) (was Re: Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp?) Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 22:41 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 22:55 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 23:14 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-16 23:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-17 9:13 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-17 13:49 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-17 14:55 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18 1:28 ` Chris Feng
2016-02-17 14:57 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18 10:51 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-14 14:05 ` Could x-show-tip be reimplemented in Elisp? How does one create borderless frames from Elisp? Stefan Monnier
2016-02-14 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-14 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-14 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-16 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-15 10:57 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2016-02-15 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-16 20:06 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 20:05 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-16 21:33 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-02-16 22:18 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-17 9:12 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-17 14:26 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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