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23.1.50; Error while displaying tooltip

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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: 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.

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