Re: Tooltip pops up when moving mouse

[Jan D.]

> > > You can (perhaps) see another version of this problem if you slowly 
> > > move
> the
> > > mouse over a link. The tooltip pops up and immediately disappears 
> > > again.
> > >
> > > That I am seeing this problem may depend on both that I have a slow 
> > > pc
> and
> > > that I am using w32. I believe it is a thread issue. Mouse movements 
> > > are
> > > detected by the UI thread, but I believe that the lisp timer for the
> tooltip
> > > popup runs in the lisp thread. I do not know if the problem is there 
> > > on X
> > > Windows as well but I would believe it.
> >
> > It is not.
>
> Thanks. Then I must say I do not understand how this works. As far as 
> I see
> for this to work reliably tooltip.el:tooltip-start-delayed-tip must 
> record
> the mouse position (because if the mouse has moved when the timer 
> fires the
> tooltip should not be shown). However it does not.
>
> Could someone please try to explain this to me? Am I missing something 
> here?

I don't know how it is implemented, but the tooltip for a link in X11 
is not removed if you move the mouse within the link, it is only 
removed when you leave the link (i.e. the highlight is removed).  So 
the enter/leave link code must do something.

        Jan D.