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authorJason Rumney <[email protected]>2001-11-27 19:19:00 +0000
committerJason Rumney <[email protected]>2001-11-27 19:19:00 +0000
commitd6cdfce6385ae2f8529adbf3d2524fa8add5c340 (patch)
tree9dc22dc767dd6e40615531d5ec38059c2f6f5b35 /etc
parent646adf9009fbd5cda92d6525d4d96d51c44274a6 (diff)
Added note about display refresh while dialogs and pop-up menus are
active on Windows.
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@@ -299,7 +299,12 @@ developers.
Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images and the tool bar.
Support for these will be added in future versions.
-Help text for pop-up menu items is not displayed at all.
+Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
+is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menu items is not
+displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is
+synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
+waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
+pop-up menu interaction.
There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first