Re: strange behavior of customize widget buttons

[Gerd Moellmann]

address@hidden (Eli Tziperman) writes:

> > 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

Hm, I have no explanation for what is going on.  It looks as if
something is changing a face, maybe internally.  I have no idea where
this could happen, though.

Eli, can you reproduce this at will?