11:41 a.m.
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
the code in balloon-x.c is called.
That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c is
experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
I think balloon help should be cleanly implemented via device methods.
Kyle disagrees because she thinks it is useless to have to reimplement
the various stuff the frame code does, such as placement of images and
I18N chars in balloon help, which is currently possible under X. I
see her point, but I think we should remove the images support from
balloon help rather than keep the frame-based implementation (the
system tooltips look so much nicer). But Kyle is the maintainer, and
I didn't press on that.
So that's the story.
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12:19 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
At 12:41 24/10/98 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
> I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
> mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
> the code in balloon-x.c is called.
That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c is
experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
Yup
I think balloon help should be cleanly implemented via device methods.
That's what I was doing.
Kyle disagrees because she thinks it is useless to have to
reimplement
the various stuff the frame code does, such as placement of images and
I18N chars in balloon help, which is currently possible under X. I
see her point, but I think we should remove the images support from
balloon help rather than keep the frame-based implementation (the
system tooltips look so much nicer).
They are also inordinately easy to implement under mswindows.
But Kyle is the maintainer, and
I didn't press on that.
I'll stop hacking. However, I don't think the frame-based solution is ok
for mswindows, given that it has its own tooltip support.
andy
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12:38 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
Andy Piper writes:
I'll stop hacking. However, I don't think the frame-based
solution is ok
for mswindows, given that it has its own tooltip support.
Ha, well you explain it to Jens when his stuff stops working. :)
I don't intend to argue about it. There isn't any need really.
Balloon Help isn't part of XEmacs, so I'll continue to support
it regardless of what XEmacs does. If applications want the
Windows specific tooltip feature they can reference it. If they
want my stuff, they can reference it. As long as you don't
steal my Lisp symbol names (as FSF Emacs did with the timer
stuff, the bastards (I'm smiling as I write this)), I'll be happy.
2:24 a.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
> I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
> mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
> the code in balloon-x.c is called.
That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c is
experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
This is why I made balloon-x.c...it is only experimental because it's
not being used. The balloon_help.c code itself is not experimental
and works fine.
doug
8:23 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
At 22:24 24/10/98 -0400, Douglas Keller wrote:
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
>
> > I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
> > mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
> > the code in balloon-x.c is called.
>
> That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c is
> experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
> created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
This is why I made balloon-x.c...it is only experimental because it's
not being used. The balloon_help.c code itself is not experimental
and works fine.
? Does ballon_help get called? Whats the difference?
andy
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5:14 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
Andy Piper writes:
At 22:24 24/10/98 -0400, Douglas Keller wrote:
>Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> > Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > > I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
> > > mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
> > > the code in balloon-x.c is called.
> >
> > That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c is
> > experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
> > created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
>
>This is why I made balloon-x.c...it is only experimental because it's
>not being used. The balloon_help.c code itself is not experimental
>and works fine.
? Does ballon_help get called? Whats the difference?
The difference is Kyle's stuff uses a Frame with the minibuffer,
modeline, menus, and scrollbars off.
balloon_help.c uses X calls to open a non-bordered window
(OverrideRedirect in X terms) that looks more like the windows tool
tips.
Kyle's stuff is more general because it can use any XEmacs features
like faces, but because it is a Frame it is heavier.
balloon_help.c can only display text, but is lighter because all it
opens is a single X window and draws into it.
BTW RMS has ask me for a GPL'd version of balloon_help.c so they can
include it in FSF Emacs.
doug
5:29 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
At 12:14 26/10/98 -0500, Doug Keller wrote:
Andy Piper writes:
> At 22:24 24/10/98 -0400, Douglas Keller wrote:
> >Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> > > Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > > I've been knocking up some C support for balloon help under
> > > > mswindows and have suddenly realised that I can find no place where
> > > > the code in balloon-x.c is called.
> > >
> > > That's because it's not called. The code you see in balloon-x.c
is
> > > experimental and should IMHO be removed. Under X, balloon helps are
> > > created as tiny frames, which is somewhat bulky and very slow.
> >
> >This is why I made balloon-x.c...it is only experimental because it's
> >not being used. The balloon_help.c code itself is not experimental
> >and works fine.
>
> ? Does ballon_help get called? Whats the difference?
The difference is Kyle's stuff uses a Frame with the minibuffer,
modeline, menus, and scrollbars off.
balloon_help.c uses X calls to open a non-bordered window
(OverrideRedirect in X terms) that looks more like the windows tool
tips.
Kyle's stuff is more general because it can use any XEmacs features
like faces, but because it is a Frame it is heavier.
balloon_help.c can only display text, but is lighter because all it
opens is a single X window and draws into it.
BTW RMS has ask me for a GPL'd version of balloon_help.c so they can
include it in FSF Emacs.
This doesn't anseer my question - how is the code called? It looks like it
is not called at all from anywhere in XEmacs.
andy
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5:57 p.m.
New subject: how does ballon-help work under X?
Andy Piper writes:
This doesn't anseer my question - how is the code called? It looks like it
is not called at all from anywhere in XEmacs.
Sorry, there are two commands in balloon-x.c, show-balloon-help and
hide-balloon-help. The intent was to attach these two calls to
enter/leave events for objects of the window like extents.
doug
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