[Bug: 21.4.19] balloon help niggles on Windows
Adrian Aichner
adrian at xemacs.org
Fri Aug 25 17:58:02 EDT 2006
"Robert Pluim" <rpluim at gmail.com> writes:
> I did
> xemacs -q
> M-x balloon-help-mode
> M-x customize-variable truncate-lines
>
> If I hold the mouse above the "Reset" button (which for some reason is
> grey whilst the others are white), I get a balloon-help popup with a
> number of problems:
>
> 1) The first time it is displayed it is sized for two lines of text,
> but contains only 1. For subsequent redisplays the frame is 1 line
> high.
>
> 2) The frame is one character too narrow for the text, so I get the
> continuation glyph, but the last character is not displayed on the
> second line. Here's a (naive) fix:
>
> diff --git a/balloon-help.el b/balloon-help.el
> index 1fa53b4..09504c7 100755
> --- a/balloon-help.el
> +++ b/balloon-help.el
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ (defun balloon-help-resize-help-frame ()
> (and (not done) (setq lines (1+ lines))))
> (setq width (/ longest font-width)
> width (if (> longest (* width font-width)) (1+ width) width))
> - (set-frame-size balloon-help-frame (+ 0 width) lines))))
> + (set-frame-size balloon-help-frame (+ 1 width) lines))))
Works for me!
Adrian
>
> (defun balloon-help-compute-help-frame-y-location ()
> (let* ((device-bottom (device-pixel-height
>
> 3) I get a very small, unkillable frame that pops up and stays around
> forever. Looking at the balloon-help code, that frame is the "junk
> frame", and it was created as
>
> (make-frame '(minibuffer t
> initially-unmapped t
> override-redirect t ; get rid of WM decorations
> width 1
> height 1)))
>
> I don't see any explicit make-frame-visible calls for that frame, but
> it is used in the plist for the make-frame call for the actual
> balloon-help frame:
>
> (frame (make-frame `(initially-unmapped t
> internal-border-width 0
> ;; try to suppress frame decorations
> override-redirect t
> name ,balloon-help-frame-name
> border-width ,balloon-help-border-width
> border-color ,balloon-help-border-color
> top ,y
> left ,x
> popup ,junk-frame
> minibuffer ,(minibuffer-window junk-frame)
> width 3
> height 1))))
>
> I suspect Windows redisplay is at fault, I'll see if I can track
> anything down.
>
> 4. The balloon-help frame actually has a title. I was expecting it to
> just be a tooltippy kind of window. Perhaps it should be a dialog
> rather than a window?
>
> 5. There appears to be a (transparent!) one pixel gap between the
> bottom window border on the balloon-help frame and the text.
>
> I'll get 21.5 compiled here, and see if it behaves any differently,
> unless you'd like me to try 21.4 from CVS.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
>
> ================================================================
>
> System Info to help track down your bug:
> ---------------------------------------
>
> OS version:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> OS: Windows_NT
>
> XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i586-pc-win32'.
>
> Building XEmacs in "e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\\
> xemacs-21.4-2006-01-28\\nt".
> Using compiler "cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -MD".
> Installing XEmacs in "c:\\XEmacs-built\\XEmacs-21.4.19".
> Package path is "~\\.xemacs;;c:\\XEmacs-built\\site-packages;c:\\
> XEmacs-built\\xemacs-packages".
> Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI.
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> Using portable dumper.
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> ----------------------
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> --------
>
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>
> Recent keystrokes:
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> RET button1 button1up C-x b RET C-s w i d t h C-s C-s
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Adrian Aichner
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