Re: table cell menu does not appear at the menubar

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

I have seen some problems with the menus on w32. I am however very 
unsure of what goes wrong. I myself use a slightly patched version of 
Emacs where I use Alt to access the menus from the keyboard. (I use the 
windows keys for Emacs META instead of the Alt key that is the default 
for Emacs META on w32.)

Lately I have began to see some problems I have never seen before. Those 
seems to be related to that I use StickyKeys. There is a bug in XP which 
makes it eat GDI Objects when StickyKeys are on. (It is so irritating 
that if it was easier to file a bug to MS I might even take my own time 
to do that ;-) ) When those are getting low some strange things can happen.

There might be other problems too. I did some changes to the menu 
handling too, since I discovered that trying to use the menus from the 
keyboard might result in changing the buffer instead. As I see it there 
has not been much interest in incorporating my changes in Emacs though 
or investigating the matter more closely. (I do not think my changes to 
the menu code are entirely correct, but at least they work much better 
for me than the standard CVS Emacs.)



Tak Ota wrote:
> I haven't had chance to perform the test under GDB.  I have a few
> additional information to this problem.  The problem seems to have
> nothing to do with table.el.  It is a GUI problem.
>
> 1. The problem may be the build platform specific as it appears to be
>    related to the windowing system.  I am building my emacs on Windows
>    XP using mingw.
>
> 2. When the problem once starts menubar contents do not change
>    regardless of the mode where point is at.  The last menubar content
>    is stuck.  The last remaining menu responds to mouse event and
>    functions correctly.
>
> 3. When this problem starts the mouse click on a window does not
>    change the focus.  The point, the highlighted window status bar all
>    remains the same regardless of mouse click.
>
> -Tak
>
> Sun, 06 May 2007 18:26:43 -0400: Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >     Also the nature of this bug is a bit more elusive than I thought.  If
> >     I kill current emacs and start it freshly the menu starts working
> >     correctly.  It continue to work correctly but eventually stops
> >     (entering the point into a table cell doesn't bring the table menu
> >     item anymore).  I don't exactly know what "eventually" means
> >     technically at this moment.
> >
> > If you use GDB to investigate what happens in updating the menu when
> > it is failing, and simultaneously investigate another new Emacs
> > process in which this is still working correctly, you can compare
> > them and see where and why they start to diverge.
> >
> > I think we should not delay the release to fix this.
>
>
>
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