Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Jason Rumney]

Stephan Stahl wrote:

> I reported this too a while ago but got no answer:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-06/msg00060.html
>
> As far as i understand tooltips on w32 emacs does not use normal
> w32-tooltips but special emacs frames that are stripped of everything
> (modeline, toolbar, minibuffer,...).  Maybe this could be changed..
>  
Emacs uses frames for its tooltips on all platforms. To change this on 
Windows would make it more difficult to maintain, and would lose 
functionality.