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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Kevin Burton" <burton@spinn3r.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ????
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:05:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763l47jpy.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30c6373b0812272248y7c51447ax15bcea34d8cce132@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Burton's message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:48:23 -0800")

"Kevin Burton" <burton@spinn3r.com> writes:

> A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with
> x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point.
>
> I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point).  Is this
> possible?
>
> If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on
> screen x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this
> was possible either.

I think it is possible with some hackery--you have to adjust
tooltip-frame-parameters before calling tooltip-show.  If I'm not
mistaken, doc-view mode uses a similar approach to display search
results within pdfs.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-28  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-28  6:48 Possible to show tooltip at (point) ???? Kevin Burton
2008-12-28  6:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-28  9:05 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-12-28  9:24   ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28  9:53     ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-28 17:14       ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-28 17:20         ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 17:31           ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-28 17:38             ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29  2:05             ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29  2:14               ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29  2:33                 ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29  2:36                   ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29  2:41                     ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-29  3:31                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-29  9:52                   ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-29 18:52                     ` Kevin Burton
2008-12-28 17:07 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-12-28 17:14   ` Kevin Burton

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