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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: rswgnu@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: display-until.el - Display a window or frame topmost in the frame stack until a condition or timeout occurs
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 17:08:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A52460F.7080806@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9jNxSBS4yr4OcUMQfUTPgohgg=pcNV-WDxktd8nGAc5Mw@mail.gmail.com>

 > ​Any further thoughts?​

Not really.  I've been struggling with such problems ever since.  The
mixture of making a frame invisible, raising it, giving it focus and
selecting it is hard to understand.

 >> The other builds (Motif, Lucid and no-toolkit) have
 >> the frame lose its title bar after executing the
 >>
 >>    (progn (set-frame-parameter (display-until-get-frame-by-name
 >> "My-Frame") 'visibility t)
 >>           (display-frame-until "My-Frame"))
 >>
 >> form.
 >
 >
 > ​Does it just seem like a timing issue?

IMHO the word "just" is inappropriate here.  Practically all issues I
fought with in this context were timing issues.

martin




  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-07 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-17 17:28 display-until.el - Display a window or frame topmost in the frame stack until a condition or timeout occurs Robert Weiner
2017-12-17 18:13 ` martin rudalics
2017-12-17 18:46   ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-18  7:26     ` martin rudalics
2017-12-18 16:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 18:17         ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-18 19:05           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 19:19             ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-19 17:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-02 17:36                 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-20  8:54       ` martin rudalics
2017-12-20 13:44         ` Robert Weiner
2018-01-02 17:38         ` Robert Weiner
2018-01-07 16:08           ` martin rudalics [this message]
2018-01-16 17:06             ` Robert Weiner
2018-01-19 18:55         ` martin rudalics
2018-01-20  5:12           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-20 10:34             ` martin rudalics

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