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25.1; x-hide-tip always returns nil with USE_GTK

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: nverno <noah.v.peart <at> gmail.com>, 24899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24899: 25.1; x-hide-tip always returns nil with USE_GTK
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:23:08 +0100

> Calling `x-hide-tip` always returns nil (it is documented to
> return t when the tooltip is active). I noticed this after
> recently compiling with gtk3. I was using `x-hide-tip` in
> a toggling function that stopped toggling. As an example
> of what currently doesn't work:
>
> (defun toggle-tip ()
>     (interactive)
>     (or (x-hide-tip)
>       (pos-tip-show "hi")))
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
> of 2016-11-07 built on nverno-M51AC
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000
> System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>
> Configured using:
> 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-modules --with-xwidgets'

Thanks for the report.  I think that before investigating this further
we need another recipe.  Yours is based on ‘pos-tip-show’ which is not
part of Emacs.  Does ‘pos-tip-show’ use GTK+ tooltips or the native
Emacs ones - what is your value of ‘x-gtk-use-system-tooltips’?

Then we would have to decide how to retrieve a non-nil return value for
‘x-hide-tip’ in the first place.  Here the tooltip disappears
immediately when I type anything, so the return value is always nil by
force, presumably.  We'd probably need a timer to test your function.

Finally, we would have to check the results for the function you get
this way for both ‘x-gtk-use-system-tooltips’ nil/t settings and for at
least one other toolkit.

Can you please try doing all that?

Thanks again, martin

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