From: Jason Rumney Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:19:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Added note about display refresh while dialogs and pop-up menus are X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~18087 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6cdfce6385ae2f8529adbf3d2524fa8add5c340;p=emacs.git Added note about display refresh while dialogs and pop-up menus are active on Windows. --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index bb4434c2fbf..01f8d3cb22e 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -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