From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:47:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108396175 21379 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 15:49:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephan Stahl , Jason Rumney , Emacs Devel , Lennart Borgman , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 16:49:34 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0iTZ-0007tz-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:49:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ij8-0002Vu-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ifw-0000OW-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ifp-0000LI-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:02:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ifo-0000K9-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0iS5-0000G1-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0iO4-0001LT-Ta; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:43:49 -0500 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:02:07 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:33393 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33393 Miles Bader writes: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:26:46 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> At least the X11 tooltips on Emacs provide no functionality >> whatsoever except popping up some text in a single font AFAICS. No >> face support, no clickable areas, nothing. > > Have you tried it? I thought so, but apparently I am confusing this with menu strings. > I've certainly used faces (and CJK characters etc) in Emacs tooltips > [under X11] and they worked just great. CJK characters (as long as they are Unicode) should provide no problems by now even in menu strings for most platforms IIRC. > Hmmm; here's a simple example: > > (x-show-tip > (propertize "*** hello ***" > 'face '(variable-pitch :foreground "green" > :background "steelblue" > :height 3.0))) I have not been using x-show-tip directly ever but merely help-echo properties, but that should make no difference. Thanks for debunking my ignorance. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum