bug#14326: 24.3; Conflict of w32-send-sys-command and set-default-font

[martin rudalics]

> The code thus commented is ifdef'ed away...

That's what I'm wondering about.

> That's not the issue here.  The issue here is that, when
> w32-send-sys-command is used, Emacs doesn't have any way of knowing
> that this call is going to change the frame's size.  The argument to
> w32-send-sys-command is just some mumbo-jumbo as far as Emacs is
> concerned.  Only when the WM_SIZE message comes in as result of that,
> do we know that the frame size is about to change.

So w32-send-sys-command is handled differently from setting the
fullscreen frame parameter to maximized?  Does this mean the OP could
have used `set-frame-parameter' and it would have worked in his sense?

> By contrast, set-default-font works in the opposite direction: Emacs
> _does_ understand what that means, it does know how to load a font and
> get its metrics, and it does know how to resize the frame as result.

But when x_set_window_size tells Windows that it wants to resize the
frame, it stumbles into some away-defined code.

> So even if the actual resize involves some messages that need to come
> to our window procedure, that doesn't matter, because we are already
> ready for the resize.  Not so when w32-send-sys-command is used.
>
> Or at least this is my understanding, admittedly very limited in this
> area.
>
> Btw, try "M-: (set-default-font "David-8") RET" in "emacs -Q", and you
> will see that the tool bar (not the menu bar) will wrap, but I see no
> adverse effects of that.  So I really don't see why we should be
> afraid of such wrapping.

We do our own toolbar wrapping.  But the menubar is wrapped by Windows.

martin