The menu-bar started having episodes (standard menus fading out/disappearing when clicked; toolbar tooltips displayed on mouse-hover on menu-bar) about a week ago.
Emacs 23.1.50.cvs090630/EmacsW32 1.58 patched installed 09/23/09 had worked fine previously. Upgrading to Emacs 23.1.50.cvs091103/EmacsW32 1.58 didn't help. A few menu text/purecopy bug reports and thread postings referencing the switch to gtk+ reduced the search space. Inserting purecopy wrappers for menu text corrects the problem menu by menu. Use of purecopy for menu text is inconsistent for core distribution and add-on/contributed libraries. In many, maybe, most cases GC menu text works. A comment in an Emacs-Dev thread indicated library pre-loading (loaddefs.el) building Emacs as determining the need/use of pure/GC storage. Are guidelines available? If so, corrections could be made accordingly and patches created/submitted. Based on search results there seems to be an increasing number of potentially related issues/problems reported. Variability of symptoms makes searching for solutions/workarounds more difficult. Time and effort would be saved if general/less incident specific posting/descriptions were available. Please let me know if there is a better list. Thanks. david -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/menu-bar-menu-problems-and-label-help-text-purecopy-guidelines-tp26734051p26734051.html Sent from the Emacs - Windows - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
