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23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:51 +0200

Some recent changes broke tooltip display on non-toolkit X builds.

Hovering the mouse over a menu item or a toolbar icon results in the
error message:

  Error while displaying tooltip: (error Invalid frame name--not a string or nil)

and after a delay the tooltip is displayed in the echo area instead of the
tooltip frame.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-11-12
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=no' 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O0 -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-inline -fno-crossjumping''

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: en_DK.utf8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=SCIM
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Message #8 received at 4910 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 4910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4910: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:52 -0800 (PST)

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

  > Some recent changes broke tooltip display on non-toolkit X builds.
  > 
  > Hovering the mouse over a menu item or a toolbar icon results in the
  > error message:
  > 
  >   Error while displaying tooltip: (error Invalid frame name--not a string or nil)
  > 
  > and after a delay the tooltip is displayed in the echo area instead of the
  > tooltip frame.

This should be fixed.

Message #15 received at 4910 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 4910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4910: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:14:31 +0200

>   > Some recent changes broke tooltip display on non-toolkit X builds.
>   >
>   > Hovering the mouse over a menu item or a toolbar icon results in the
>   > error message:
>   >
>   >   Error while displaying tooltip: (error Invalid frame name--not a string or nil)
>   >
>   > and after a delay the tooltip is displayed in the echo area instead of the
>   > tooltip frame.
>
> This should be fixed.

Thanks.  There are another problem, and I don't know if it's related to
your changes.  Hovering the mouse on the first menu opening after
starting Emacs (I mean when you click on a top-level menu first time)
displays empty tooltip frames for menu items.  But after second menu
opening tooltip frames are correct.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Message #18 received at 4910 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 4910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4910: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:57:05 -0800 (PST)

Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:

  > >   > Some recent changes broke tooltip display on non-toolkit X builds.
  > >   >
  > >   > Hovering the mouse over a menu item or a toolbar icon results in the
  > >   > error message:
  > >   >
  > >   >   Error while displaying tooltip: (error Invalid frame name--not a string or nil)
  > >   >
  > >   > and after a delay the tooltip is displayed in the echo area instead of the
  > >   > tooltip frame.
  > >
  > > This should be fixed.
  > 
  > Thanks.  There are another problem, and I don't know if it's related to
  > your changes.  Hovering the mouse on the first menu opening after
  > starting Emacs (I mean when you click on a top-level menu first time)
  > displays empty tooltip frames for menu items.  But after second menu
  > opening tooltip frames are correct.

That's an old problem, it's present at least in 23.1.
I think I mentioned it on the list some time ago.

Message #25 received at 4910 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, 4910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4910: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:47:33 +0100

Dan Nicolaescu skrev:
> Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> writes:
> 
>   > >   > Some recent changes broke tooltip display on non-toolkit X builds.
>   > >   >
>   > >   > Hovering the mouse over a menu item or a toolbar icon results in the
>   > >   > error message:
>   > >   >
>   > >   >   Error while displaying tooltip: (error Invalid frame name--not a string or nil)
>   > >   >
>   > >   > and after a delay the tooltip is displayed in the echo area instead of the
>   > >   > tooltip frame.
>   > >
>   > > This should be fixed.
>   > 
>   > Thanks.  There are another problem, and I don't know if it's related to
>   > your changes.  Hovering the mouse on the first menu opening after
>   > starting Emacs (I mean when you click on a top-level menu first time)
>   > displays empty tooltip frames for menu items.  But after second menu
>   > opening tooltip frames are correct.
> 
> That's an old problem, it's present at least in 23.1.
> I think I mentioned it on the list some time ago.
> 

This should be fixed now.

	Jan D.

Message #30 received at 4910-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, 4910-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4910: 23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:07:43 +0200

>>   > Hovering the mouse on the first menu opening after starting Emacs
>>   > (I mean when you click on a top-level menu first time) displays
>>   > empty tooltip frames for menu items.  But after second menu
>>   > opening tooltip frames are correct.
>>
>> That's an old problem, it's present at least in 23.1.
>> I think I mentioned it on the list some time ago.
>
> This should be fixed now.

Thank you.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

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