Re: Fw: displaying variables in gdb mode

David> "Does not get in the way", Which means what? If you pop up a balloon help in the center of a rectangle, you will obscure some of it. Which area should we avoid getting in the way of, and how are we supposed to know? Or does this only apply in cases like popup menus, where there's an obvious region that should not be obscured? David> "does not carry full Window decorations", Fixed in May 2005. David> "disappears immediately when typing or moving the mouse David> without blocking" Easy enough to implement from balloon-help primitives, I should think, but I haven't actually done it yet. I don't recall this being reported as an issue before. David> "pops up without taking CPU time to prepare, thus causing David> an inexplicable delay in normal operations before the David> reason is apparent", What do you mean by "normal operations"? If you turn balloon-help on, it does not interfere with clicking toolbar buttons immediately although the toolbar will provide help if you do nothing for quite some time. Isn't that normal operation? Have you tried setting `balloon-help-timeout' to something other than the (rather high) default of 1500 (milliseconds)? I cannot perceive any delay at all with it set to 50. (0 doesn't work right because of weirdness, a bug if you like, in the timer code.) David> "does not cause the Windows port to crash". Don't recall hearing of that before, either. :-( You wouldn't happen to be able to point to a debugger stack trace, would you? -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.