Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-02-14) writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hmmm; here's a simple example:
>>
>>    (x-show-tip
>>     (propertize "*** hello ***"
>>              'face '(variable-pitch :foreground "green"
>>                                     :background "steelblue" 
>>                                     :height 3.0)))
>
> I have not been using x-show-tip directly ever but merely help-echo
> properties, but that should make no difference.

I just saw those tooltips the first time in my life by enabling
tooltip-mode and hovering with the mouse pointer over some menus
generated by AUCTeX.  If one is used to native GTK tooltips, the ones
generated by Emacs look really awkward.

-- 
Ralf