From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:47:37 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <200502150047.JAA02462@etlken.m17n.org> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> <003a01c5129c$c2c55e80$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c512d3$Blat.v2.4$ddc805c0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108429960 614 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 01:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, jasonr@gnu.org, stahl@eos.franken.de, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 02:12:38 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0rGO-0007ry-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:12:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0rW2-0005ny-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0rTx-00058q-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0rTq-00056L-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0rTp-0004yY-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:26:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D0qsX-0003as-Ur; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from nfs.m17n.org (nfs.m17n.org [192.47.44.7]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j1F0lbXD030054; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:47:37 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by nfs.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j1F0lbPN018049; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:47:37 +0900 Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA02462; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:47:37 +0900 (JST) Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:48:29 +0900) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3.50 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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:33444 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33444 In article , Miles Bader writes: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:28:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > "Emacs Frame" tooltips seems to work really well in X11; why not just >> > make them work well in Windows too? >> >> FWIW, I use Emacs on Windows XP and never saw any special slowness of >> the Emacs tooltips. > Might it be simply that Windows is very slow in window-creation (it is > reputedly much slower to create new OS processes than other OSes) and > the original poster has a very slow machine? Isn't it better even in X11 to reuse a single tooltip frame by mapping and unmapping instead of creating and destroying it. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org