Re: Images, display-time, modeline

[Amy Templeton <amy.g.templeton@gmail.com>]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> What's the value of display-time-string-forms

((if 
     (and (not display-time-format) display-time-day-and-date) 
     (format-time-string "%a %b %e " now) "") 
 (format-time-string 
  (or display-time-format 
      (if display-time-24hr-format 
	  "%H:%M" 
	"%-I:%M%p")))
 (if mail 
     (concat " " 
	     (propertize
	      "Mail" ... ... ... "mouse-2: Read mail" ... ...))
   ""))

> and of display-time-string when you have mail?

#("2:38PM Mail" 0 7 nil 7 11 (display 
			      (when (and display-time-use-mail-icon ...) 
				image :type pbm 
				:file "~/vc/cvs/emacs/2007-04-15/share/emacs/22.0.97/etc/letter.pbm" 
				:ascent center 
				:background unspecified) 
			      help-echo "mouse-2: Read mail" 
			      local-map (keymap (mode-line
			      keymap ...))))

Incidentally, what do all the ...'s mean? They don't seem to
be either a function or a variable.

> You don't have gif support, which explains why Google
> logos don't appear.

Oh, duh, I guess I just forgot to ask the configure script
for that. Next update, I guess.

> What happens if you evaluate the following in the scratch
> buffer:

> (insert (propertize "foo" 'display display-time-mail-icon))

It inserts the icon!

> Does it change if you switch to letter.xbm?

I've tried pointing display-time-mail-icon to that and it
didn't show up in the modeline. 

> Does it change if you switch to letter.xbm?

Instead, it prints "foo."

Any ideas on what this all means?

Thanks,
Amy