Fw: displaying variables in gdb mode

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

    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?



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