Re: mouse-autoselect-window with menu pane

[martin rudalics]

Richard Stallman schrieb:
>     I agree that one-shot timers are generally better.  But when I tried to
>     implement a one-shot timer for delayed autoselection, it occasionally
>     didn't trigger for some reason.  Maybe I should give it another try.
>
> Please do give it another try, because if reactivations get lost
> (other than due to an error occurring earlier in the timer function),
> that would seem to be a bug in Emacs.  If there is such a bug, we
> should track it down.  But first let's see if such a bug currently
> exists.
>
> Can you do that, then get back to me?

In the meantime, I was able to make this work with a one-shot timer that
reschedules itself.  Hence, I think there's no such bug.

FWIW, a possible sequence of events that triggered the problem on my
system goes as follows: The timer function runs `window-at' which, on
Windows, seems to break when the mouse is on a scroll-bar or on a menu
item.  Wrapping that `window-at' in a `condition-case' resolves the
problem for me.  Hence, apparently, the timer was not rescheduled due to
"an error occurring earlier in the timer function".