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bug#7398: 23.2.90; Missing descenders in menu and toolbar tooltips
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7398: 23.2.90; Missing descenders in menu and toolbar tooltips |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:24:51 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:18:28 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: f.j.wright@live.co.uk, 7398@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:05:14 -0800
> > Cc:
> >
> > > This is on Microsoft Windows 7.
> >
> > Confirmed also for Windows XP.
>
> It is part of a larger problem with Emacs tooltips on MS-Windows: we
> somehow miscalculate the dimensions of the tooltip. You can see that
> even with the default font, if you slowly move the mouse pointer from
> left to right above the mode line: some of the tooltips that pop up
> have truncated text.
>
> There's a TODO comment about this in w32fns.c:x-show-tip.
>
> FWIW, this problem exists at least since Emacs 23.1.
I believe I solved this now (on emacs-23 branch; the trunk needs a
slightly different solution, due to bidi display, to follow shortly).
- bug#7398: 23.2.90; Missing descenders in menu and toolbar tooltips,
Eli Zaretskii <=