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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 19 Jan 1997 05:41:58 +0100
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Kyle Jones (kyle_jones@wonderworks.com) wrote:
> I want actually moving the mouse to pulldown a menu, but

Hey, I didn't even know XEmacs had balloon help. :-)

Anyway, after trying it out, I was horrified to find that it actually
opens a whole XEmacs frame for that snippet of text.  This is why it's
terribly slow, cumbersome and generally unusable. :-(

A good balloon-help implementation should probably be written in C,
window-system-dependent.  I wonder how hard it would be to implement.

> I uncommented (require 'balloon-help) in my .emacs a day
> or so ago and have been getting crashes pretty regularly since then.
> Steven/Martin I suggest that you start using balloon-help and see
> if it kills XEmacs for you.  The effect isn't immediate, but it
> is noticeable.  Prior to enabling balloon-help I could use teh
> same XEmacs process for a couple of days.

Well, I didn't try for a couple of days, but it works for a few hours
without crash for me.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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