Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Lennart Borgman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Stahl" <address@hidden>

> I remembered this old Mail from Lennart Borgman:
> "Status bar gets face Mode Line Inactive after Alt-Tab"
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-12/msg00366.html
>
> This seems to have the same cause as those problems with the tooltips
> on w32.  When i use Alt-Tab the mode line does not get updated (still
> the mode-line-inactive face) while it gets updated (mode-line face)
> when using C-x 5 o.
>
> Jason Rumney said it could be that the focus gained messages from the
> OS are not handled correct.  Any tips to were i could start looking
> for clues?  So far my knowledge of the emacs internals is very low..

I wrote some code to take care of this, but it is not uploaded yet. It is
some changes to w32term.c, but I do not know if they are correct and want
others to look at it before it is uploaded. Mail me if you want a copy.