Dr Rainer Woitok writes: > > In any case, I don't see any problems with attachment buttons using: > > > > 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" XEmacs Lucid (i586-pc-win32) > > This may well be, but "vm-8.2.0b" dates back to December 2011 where a > beta version of XEmacs 21.5 was not yet existing, so I think I could ex- > pect it to work with XEmacs 21.4.
Not necessarily. XEmacs 21.4 is really ancient if I recall correctly. If you use the latest beta release, you will get the benefit of all the bug fixes that have been made since then. Beta versions are generally safe to use, even if they don't have the full functionality that the developers intended for them. > Again, this may be, but for me the question is, why is function "vm- > mime-display-button-image" at all calling two different functions to in- > sert the thumbnail? At least in my environment calling only the second > function seems sufficient. If vm-mime-thumbnail-max-geometry is non-nil, VM assumes that you want thumbnails. If the thumbnail generation "fails" (i.e., gives an error), then it puts a default paper clip instead. In your environment, the thumbnail generation is failing (from your point of view), but it is not giving an error either. So, you are getting a garbage piece of text instead. The solution is to disable thumbnail generation. This is not worthy of patching VM because there is nothing wrong with the VM code. The problem is with your environment. As far as I am concerned, thumbnail generation is not worthy of either my time or yours. Cheers, Uday
