Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rumney" <address@hidden>

> >As far as i understand tooltips on w32 emacs does not use normal
> >w32-tooltips but special emacs frames that are stripped of everything
> >(modeline, toolbar, minibuffer,...).  Maybe this could be changed..
> >
> >
> Emacs uses frames for its tooltips on all platforms. To change this on
> Windows would make it more difficult to maintain, and would lose
> functionality.

Could not this functionality be encapsulated so that it could use the
platform
specific tooltips? It could perhaps be the easiest way to solve the problem?

What functionality could be lost?