From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible to update tooltip text? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:00:43 +0100 Message-ID: <47EE599B.2080309@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206802867 25553 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2008 15:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ye Wenbin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 16:01:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfcYp-0000yC-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:01:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfcYE-0008TS-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfcY8-0008Sx-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfcY6-0008SW-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfcY6-0008ST-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfcY6-0002jH-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:61445 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JfcY1-00018K-7M; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:00:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080328-0, 2008-03-28), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JfcY1-00018K-7M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JfcY1-00018K-7M c149851d81998f87df12c09903d39466 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93801 Archived-At: Ye Wenbin wrote: > Hi, > I am wondering whether there is a function to update the text display in > the > tooltip. Maybe the tooltip is not what I what, because I think tooltip will > disappear when user input something. I want a frame the display text like > tooltip, and I can update the text according to user's input and hide > it when needed. > I think such feature is useful, for example it can be used for displaying > candicate expansions or using by input methods. I try x-show-tip, but > the frame display and disappear too often. I searched for something like that too, but finally (for some other reasons) decided to use an overlay instead. Maybe that was the wrong approach and if you manage to get tooltips to work for you as you wanted to above then please tell me. My "overlay workaround" is in tabkey2.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/tabkey2.el