From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18195: 24.3.92; window-screen-lines is not accurate Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:25:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvh7mg6r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86tx5r7l1j.fsf@yandex.ru> <53E097F7.5050407@gmx.at> <53E0ABF9.7070506@yandex.ru> <53E0AF08.50300@gmx.at> <831tsvqc3c.fsf@gnu.org> <53E0E2E5.7050306@gmx.at> <83tx5rowop.fsf@gnu.org> <53E0E665.1000206@gmx.at> <83ppgfow0p.fsf@gnu.org> <53E0EC6C.7020504@gmx.at> <83oavzotxz.fsf@gnu.org> <53E0FC15.4060502@gmx.at> <83lhr2q0nt.fsf@gnu.org> <53E1F846.2040105@gmx.at> <83ha1pptrd.fsf@gnu.org> <53E25484.8050909@gmx.at> <83a97hpomm.fsf@gnu.org> <53E269E9.6020004@gmx.at> <83wqalo5q0.fsf@gnu.org> <53E39674.2040507@gmx.at> <83a97gnwhy.fsf@gnu.org> <53E39DA6.80201@gmx.at> <83y4v0mf35.fsf@gnu.org> <53E48D29.1010501@gmx.at> <83iom3mjda.fsf@gnu.org> <53E4A224.6010000@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407493585 19246 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2014 10:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18195@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 12:26:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFhNG-0006Zt-Tg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18195) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Aug 2014 10:25:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34667 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFhMX-0007Lw-Uy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:34054) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFhMT-0007Lb-Sb for 18195@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9Z00F00FZV1I00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 18195@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:20:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9Z00DODGQ2W630@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:20:27 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <53E4A224.6010000@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:92303 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:10:44 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: dgutov@yandex.ru, 18195@debbugs.gnu.org > > > IOW, your suggested solution is incomplete, unless you intend the > > application to do some iterative process, each time changing the > > position where it puts the overlay and adjusting it in the next > > iteration based on the results of window-text-pixel-size. > > This precisley formulates what the application should do and cannot be > avoided IMHO. We should provide an API that allows applications to avoid that. > After all, tooltips and menus seem to face exactly the same problem > when the frame is at the bottom of the display. No, we never do any iterations or multiple trials when displaying menus and tooltips. We compute the required space and then compare it with what is available to make the decision.