Re: strange behavior of customize widget buttons

[Eli Tziperman]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Date: 23 Nov 2000 20:17:24 +0000
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.91
> 
> Gerd Moellmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > address@hidden (Eli Tziperman) writes:
> > 
> > > In GNU Emacs 21.0.91.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit)
> > >  of Wed 2000-11-22 on beach
> > > 
> > > 1) % /usr/local/emacs-21.0.91/src/emacs -q --no-site-file
> > > 
> > > 2) click on options -> customize emacs -> top level customization group
> > > 
> > > 3) click left mouse button on one of the "go to group" buttons
> > >    (e.g. "Editing"), and LEAVE IT PRESSED.
> > > 
> > > 4) all buttons on the page change shape as if they were pressed.  that
> > >    seems like the wrong behavior.  Also, keeping the mouse button
> > >    pressed a bit more, the widget buttons start blinking together with
> > >    the cursor...
> > 
> > Thanks, Eli.
> > 
> > I'm afraid I can't reproduce this here.  Can someone else?
> 
> I managed to reproduce the blinking in a running Emacs (with my init
> files loaded) on Solaris. The buttons do not change to "pushed", the
> borders of the buttons inherit the cursor (as a pressed button) border
> colors. This was obvious to me, as my cursor is orange, but with the
> default black cursor, it might appear that all the buttons were
> showing as pressed.

just to make sure we're all talking about the same thing, here is a
screenshot of what I have...  Eli

> I could not reproduce this on a fresh Emacs, with or without my init
> files loaded. I tried various things that I might have done in the
> previous session that made this behaviour happen, but could still not
> reproduce it again.