Re: tooltip can be displayed outside the screen

[Jan D.]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> > Yes, sorry about that, my W32 and OSX access is nil right now.
> > There should me more code sharing, computing x and y for a tip frame
> > should be fairly platform independant.  Thanks for pointing out the
> > other ports.
> >    
>
> Making this computation platform independent will become a non-issue
> once the code is fixed and tested.  But currently it is still not.
> What do you think about fixing the meaning of `tooltip-y-offset'?
> Currently `tooltip-y-offset' defines the Y offset relative to the
> bottom of the tooltip frame.  But all similar options in Emacs define
> offsets relative to the top (in top-left pairs).  Even `tooltip-y-offset'
> allows alternative specifications in the frame parameter `top', which
> differs from the current behavior of `tooltip-y-offset' which uses
> the bottom of the tooltip frame.  This can be fixed by using the same
> code for computing x and y.
>  

It must be a bug that the tooltip can be covered by the pointer so I've 
changed it as you suggested (for W32 and Mac also this time).  You must 
have quite a big font to see this with the default y offset.  I also 
changed the default y offset to 20 from 40.

   Jan D.