Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:26:46 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At least the X11 tooltips on Emacs provide no functionality >> whatsoever except popping up some text in a single font AFAICS. No >> face support, no clickable areas, nothing. > > Have you tried it?
I thought so, but apparently I am confusing this with menu strings. > I've certainly used faces (and CJK characters etc) in Emacs tooltips > [under X11] and they worked just great. CJK characters (as long as they are Unicode) should provide no problems by now even in menu strings for most platforms IIRC. > Hmmm; here's a simple example: > > (x-show-tip > (propertize "*** hello ***" > 'face '(variable-pitch :foreground "green" > :background "steelblue" > :height 3.0))) I have not been using x-show-tip directly ever but merely help-echo properties, but that should make no difference. Thanks for debunking my ignorance. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel