Added note about display refresh while dialogs and pop-up menus are

active on Windows. Updated Windows specific references from 21.1 to 21.2.

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 81d18476822f9466408ff459a2a8f306c5f375d5..88fea7345d1424e9b5be981ef13b6e51bce5fb50 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -285,14 +285,21 @@ locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events.  We still don't know
 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs
 developers.
 
-* Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.1.
+* Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2.
 
-Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images, the tool bar,
+Emacs 21.2 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images, the tool bar,
 and tooltips.  Support for these will be added in future versions.
 
 Help text that is displayed in a tooltip on other window systems, on
 Windows is printed in the echo area, since tooltips are not yet
-available.  Help text for pop-up menu items is not displayed at all.
+available.
+
+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
@@ -308,7 +315,7 @@ characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
 
-Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.1).
+Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2).
 These input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in
 the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.).  To make this
@@ -320,7 +327,7 @@ appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
 yet.)
 
 Multilingual text put into the Windows 2000 clipboard by Windows
-applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.1).  This
+applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.2).  This
 is because Windows 2000 uses Unicode to represent multilingual text,
 but Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it.  This
 means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other