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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: balloon-help 1.04
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Jens Lautenbacher writes:
 > just some little sugestion: The following patch allows to change the
 > balloon's frame width.

OK, the border width variable goes in.

 > Using the following defaults gives a balloon very similar to some well
 > known commercial apps ... :-)
 > 
 >        (setq  balloon-help-foreground "black"
 > 	      balloon-help-background "yellow"
 > 	      balloon-help-font
 > 	      "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
 > 	      balloon-help-border-color "black"
 > 	      balloon-help-border-width 1)

Proportional width fonts still need work.  The frame is not sized
properly for them, because there's no easy way to do it.  In fact
I don't know if there's any way to do it except by binary
searching to the correct size, which is slow.  If I had a
current-pixel-column function, I could put the cursor on the end
of the longest line, call current-pixel-column and then size the
frame to fit.  I want this function.  I ardently desire this
function.  Would someone please write it?

