bug#6452: closed (toolbar accidental clicking in windows)

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regarding toolbar accidental clicking in windows
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> toolbar accidental clicking in windows
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> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:40:02 -0600
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US;	rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4
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> Dear emacs developers,
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> I have noticed on my tablet PC running Windows 7 that tapping on the 
> menubar sometimes causes a toolbar button to be clicked inadvertently.
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> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) visit the *scratch* buffer
> 2) ensure tool-bar-mode and menu-bar-mode are both enabled
> 3) Tap a menu-bar menu
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> Most of the time, this results in the appropriate menu contents flashing 
> briefly to the screen, then disappearing, and a nearby tool-bar-button 
> action being executed. When the tool-bar-mode is disabled, the menus 
> work just fine.
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> Windows version 7 professional
> Emacs version: 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 
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> I can disable the toolbar, but on a tablet PC it's nice to have those 
> buttons around.
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> I do apologize if I have not mailed the correct team, or if I haven't 
> included enough information-- after years of using emacs, this is the 
> first bug I have ever encountered.
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> Jesse Wilson
> Bartels Lab: Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics
> Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
> Colorado State University
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> Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> writes:
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> > "Jesse W. Wilson" <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> Dear emacs developers,
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> >> I have noticed on my tablet PC running Windows 7 that tapping on the menubar
> >> sometimes causes a toolbar button to be clicked inadvertently.
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> >> Steps to reproduce:
> >> 1) visit the *scratch* buffer
> >> 2) ensure tool-bar-mode and menu-bar-mode are both enabled
> >> 3) Tap a menu-bar menu
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> >> Most of the time, this results in the appropriate menu contents flashing 
> >> briefly
> >> to the screen, then disappearing, and a nearby tool-bar-button action being
> >> executed. When the tool-bar-mode is disabled, the menus work just fine.
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> >> Windows version 7 professional
> >> Emacs version: 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 [2 
> >> times]
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> >> I can disable the toolbar, but on a tablet PC it's nice to have those buttons
> >> around.
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> > This was reported 9 years ago, but unfortunately never got a reply at the 
> > time.
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> > Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If yes, do you
> > see this behaviour in other programs as well, or just in Emacs?
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> More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks.  I
> also think it sounds likely that this issue is not specific to Emacs,
> but rather is a (perhaps fixed?) general problem for Windows on
> tablets.  I'm therefore closing this bug
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> If my above assumption is incorrect, and this is still an issue with a
> modern version of Emacs, please reopen the bug report.
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> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
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