Re: how does ballon-help work under X?
At 14:35 25/10/98 -0800, Kyle Jones wrote:
Andy Piper writes:
> At 13:38 24/10/98 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> >Not if you want to have the ability to attach glyphs and extents to
> >tooltip strings.
>
> Why would I want to do this :)
You might want to emphasize a word in the help string, which
would require an extent. Or you might want to put a glyph in
the balloon to give the user an exact picture of the button
they should press to initiate an action.
I don't understnad the resistance to the existing balloon help.
Presumably if the Windows port was done properly, balloon-help.el
should just work. It doesn't rely on X specific things as far as
I know.
Slow and ugly. More importantly (and this touches on several flame wars)
Windows already has tooltips which look different to that produced by
ballon-help (and is also already used by the mswindows toolbars). We win no
prizes IMHO by producing non-standard balloon-help.
Anyway I'm not going to hack on it since I was originally only doing it
because I thought ballon-help-in-c was a feature that the X version of
XEmacs had which the windows version doesn't. SInce this is not true I
can't get very excited about it. Balloon help for toolbars works .....
andy
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