Re: Tool bar buttons stay active too long

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I think all these flickerings are a ``feature'' of the redisplay that 
>     Emacs decides to perform: each such redisplay first resets the buttons to 
>     their inactive state, then raises them again.  This is based on a vague 
>     recollection from reading the code long ago, though; Gerd, am I right 
>     about this?
> 
> Why would redisplay raise the button again when the mouse is in the
> menu bar, and therefore clearly not on the button?

I thought you were telling that you move the mouse slightly, but it still 
is on the button.  If the mouse pointer is no longer on the button, then 
the button should stay in its inactive state.

> (And why would moving the mouse in the menu bar, when no menu bar
> menu is visible, cause a redisplay?)

Because of the tool bar, I suspect.  But it's a mere speculation.