Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart has been looking at this. He sent me some replacement files for 
w32term.c etc, but I have not had time to look at it, and he has not had 
time to send it as a patch which would be more convenient for me.



Stephan Stahl wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Some people have been looking into this..  Are there any news?
>
> I remembered this old Mail from Lennart Borgman:
> "Status bar gets face Mode Line Inactive after Alt-Tab"
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-12/msg00366.html
>
> This seems to have the same cause as those problems with the tooltips
> on w32.  When i use Alt-Tab the mode line does not get updated (still
> the mode-line-inactive face) while it gets updated (mode-line face)
> when using C-x 5 o.
>
> Jason Rumney said it could be that the focus gained messages from the
> OS are not handled correct.  Any tips to were i could start looking
> for clues?  So far my knowledge of the emacs internals is very low..
>
> Stephan
>