Re: New Lucid menus

[Jan D.]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I really like the antialiased fonts in the Lucid menus, but the code
> still has some problems:
> - emacs -Q followed by C-mouse-3 gets us straight to a segfault because
>   of a "childs[0] = 0;" where childs has just been initialised to NULL.
>   But even after removing this assignment I still get some assertion
>   failure:
>
>    % emacs -Q
>    C-down-mouse-2
>    ...move mouse down through the menu (making the submenus show up) and
>    then back up to just above the menu title...
>    ...release the mouse-2 button outside the menu
>
>   I then get an assertion failure at insdel.c:2046 because
>   "XWINDOW (selected_window)->buffer" doesn't hold a buffer apparently :-(

Hmm, that sounds strange.  I thought selected window always had a buffer.

> - when I move the mouse through the menubar's submenus, they flicker like
>   crazy: they seem to be constantly redrawn.

That I don't see, but maybe my machine is faster?  I'll check it out.

BTW, shouldn't this be a bug report :-)

        Jan D.