Problem with the absence of tooltips in w32 version

[Robert Marshall]

In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-msvc-windows98.2222)
 of 2001-10-29 on SWC-MAN-L004
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: eng
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

The w32 port puts the tooltip in the echo area - as tooltips aren't
yet implemented, and this sometimes means that values shown in the
echo area don't appear

e.g.
emacs -q
In *scratch* type
(setq xxyyzz  (concat "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
                      "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"
                      "cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc"))

leave cursor after closing paren, put mouse over the 'lisp
interaction' in the mode line, and then type C-x C-e, I see the size
of the echo area change (very) briefly - it goes from 1 line to 2
lines in height - but as far as the user can see the text doesn't
change from 'mouse 3: minor mode menu'

I think I reported this in a pretest but maybe not quite so explicitly!
R
-- 
Robert Marshall