From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't use tooltip of dictionary package in Emacs 23 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:51:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k67e64zk.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> <1150689024.024155.181210@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <87odwp19id.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151236352 457 80.91.229.2 (25 Jun 2006 11:52:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 25 13:52:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuTA9-0000mB-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:52:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuTA8-0000YA-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuT9l-0000XX-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuT9k-0000X3-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuT9j-0000X0-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FuTLN-0000JN-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FuT9b-0000iu-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:51:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 67 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAAAUCAMAAAAKqMsNAAAAwFBMVEUfIB4qLCk8PjxAQT9E RkNHSUZKS0lOUE1SVFFWV1VWWFVaW1lcXltfYV5kZWNpa2hsbmtub21vcW5ydHF3eXZ5e3h7fXp+ f32Agn+EhoOGiIWKjImNjouTlZKWmJWZm5icnpugop+jpaKnqaarraqwsq6ztbG4ure7vbq+wL3D xcLJy8jP0c3R09DT1dLV19TY2tfe4Nzf4d7h5ODj5eLn6ebq7Ont7+vv8e3y9PHz9fL19/T3+fb4 +/f8/vv+//wkcdDPAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH1gIaAyMPYYdloAAAAZlJ REFUOMudVH9TgkAQxWhqGBrqSueSQM2QUgQERxKBt9//W3V3IJKZf7A33I+927ePtxwaESWrveip oD6mEW3m4LkYbr77AWAXZ/NFaDkD+3Hfi8H7IjR8PS90fPI+ALEF6JkRFrd4m10/nH1fAvBmlAxR OEx7+cCV6O10OnQuAODgfE4qACVvw7dVPaylhbVPnMDmnNFWiSiNRDult1M1+APbtses9Yf+b4Yz 7rxKEUlGdzcwTuqceiqyhq07k6eqQplcm8Bzpv15qSo/8DjP5XRlEXktM49L3AlTJjgWJtE40Cjw O7YnvLOhbjEWSwr3URSLeDwlhDK3DtKnCAh8lA8Evm40aE0tx6mciWloeKgFlI8pfe4Lk00wgFGQ WWro6t7oXWsgY1ithuo2vCmGSiSmEWNLqgHc1E1oXR0B5llbORwB8okddZIc91UVUHrYjWCeKLSl 79D6Ss/i630FkE6WLvPvgvOC/ALAn88UzWUi3BXgHyv3+kXAv7eRdgbIKHm07QkAjMJpAL6Mev6R BMJOFrpEH4AfGukf4kwTGH0AAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iIUQQmfoaLU+NtpYg1xnXFu/gZo= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35647 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > "pluskid" writes: > > Hi, > >> You mentioned you looked on how dictionary.el implemented it. Can >> you explain how it implement? > > Well, this is basically the code dictionary.el uses for tooltips on GNU > Emacs: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (defun dictionary-display-tooltip (event) > "Search the current word in the `dictionary-tooltip-dictionary'." > (interactive "e") > ;; Process event and show tooltip > ) > > ;;;###autoload > (defun dictionary-tooltip-mode (&optional arg) > "Display tooltips for the current word" > (interactive "P") > ;; - snip - > (add-hook 'tooltip-hook 'dictionary-display-tooltip) > (make-local-variable 'track-mouse) > (setq track-mouse on))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > By setting the `track-mouse' variable to a non-nil value, mouse motion > events should be generated. When it's time to display a tooltip each > function in `tooltip-hook' is called with an event which can be used to > extract the word under the mouse pointer, etc. > > As a test case you could evaluate the following code in *scratch*. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (progn > (defun foo (event) > (interactive "e") > (message "Gotten Event") > (tooltip-show "Huzzah!")) > (add-hook 'tooltip-hook 'foo) > (setq track-mouse t) > (tooltip-mode 1)) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > On GNU Emacs 21 this should open tooltips with "Huzzah!" in it, and > "Gotten Event" should be printed in the echo area. (Can someone test it? > I don't have emacs 21 accessible right now.) > > On GNU Emacs 22 nothing happens -- it's even worse. All tooltips which > appeared before, for example the modeline help, don't appear anymore > after setting `track-mouse' to non-nil. > > Bye, > Tassilo Hope someone have time to take a look. It seems not very complicated. Besides if the tooltip is enabled it will cause the mouse to misbehave[1] (in emacs 22). Footnotes: [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/11443 -- Leon