bug#5703: 23.1.92; `x-show-tip' and `tooltip-frame-parameters' do not respect `left' and `top'

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I think the small patch below fixes this.  But since this is about
> pretest, I would like second opinion on that from anyone who is
> familiar with this stuff (not only on MS-Windows).  In particular, I'd
> like to hear from Jason.

If I understand your patch correctly, what you are effectively doing is
to compute the x and y location of the tooltip, then patch it up
afterwards if explicit arguments were given.  This seems ok for a
temporary workaround until the reason Windows behaviour differs from
other plaforms can be found.


> === modified file 'src/w32fns.c'
> --- src/w32fns.c      2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
> +++ src/w32fns.c      2010-03-30 12:57:13 +0000
> @@ -5927,6 +5927,10 @@ Text larger than the specified size is c
>    /* Move the tooltip window where the mouse pointer is.  Resize and
>       show it.  */
>    compute_tip_xy (f, parms, dx, dy, width, height, &root_x, &root_y);
> +  if (f->top_pos)
> +    root_y = f->top_pos;
> +  if (f->left_pos)
> +    root_x = f->left_pos;
>  
>    {
>      /* Adjust Window size to take border into account.  */