Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
Stephan Stahl wrote:
I reported this too a while ago but got no answer:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-06/msg00060.html
As far as i understand tooltips on w32 emacs does not use normal
w32-tooltips but special emacs frames that are stripped of everything
(modeline, toolbar, minibuffer,...). Maybe this could be changed..
Emacs uses frames for its tooltips on all platforms. To change this on
Windows would make it more difficult to maintain, and would lose
functionality.
Are you sure about that? Under X11, tooltips come without any
decoration and without any impact on the focus (I have
focus-follows-mouse policy). I never noticed _any_ problem with them.
If users of Emacs on Windows experience similar effects, this will
significantly hamper acceptance and usability. So I'd strongly to
those working on the Windows port to see whether something can be done
in that regard. I can't see at all what functionality could possibly
be lost. At least the X11 tooltips on Emacs provide no functionality
whatsoever except popping up some text in a single font AFAICS. No
face support, no clickable areas, nothing. So if there is a function
for popping them up in the system, I can't see what we could lose by
using it.