Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Jan D.]

> * David Kastrup (2005-02-14) writes:
>
> > Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Hmmm; here's a simple example:
> > >
> > >    (x-show-tip
> > >     (propertize "*** hello ***"
> > >                 'face '(variable-pitch :foreground "green"
> > >                                        :background "steelblue"
> > >                                        :height 3.0)))
> >
> > I have not been using x-show-tip directly ever but merely help-echo
> > properties, but that should make no difference.
>
> I just saw those tooltips the first time in my life by enabling
> tooltip-mode and hovering with the mouse pointer over some menus
> generated by AUCTeX.  If one is used to native GTK tooltips, the ones
> generated by Emacs look really awkward.

Care to elaborate?  The main difference is that GTK tool tips always 
seems to appear below a tool bar button, where as Emacs tool tips are 
some distance from the pointer.  The color and font also differs, but 
that can be customized.  Maybe we can make tool tips appear under the 
button if it is for a tool bar button.  Would that be better?

The problem with the font is that Emacs doesn't support anti aliased 
fonts (yet), but GTK uses them all over, even in tool tips.

        Jan D.