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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: time-el 1.3 / bug in balloon-help & transparent pixmaps ?
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Jens Lautenbacher writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Jens Lautenbacher writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > * features balloon "help" via the new balloon-help v. 1.05
 > >  >   which now also addresses extents in modelines.
 > >  > 
 > >  >   A bug in balloon-help (?): when displaying multiline
 > >  >   strings, the height of the window seems to be one
 > >  >   line too big. So the echo area's contents is also
 > >  >   displayed. This is annoying.
 > > 
 > > Unfixable currently.  Use fixed width fonts in balloon-help.
 > > The frame may not be sized properly otherwise.
 > 
 > Another thing that strikes me is that the balloon is always displayed
 > SE of the mouse (OK, the SE would be fixable, but the problem is more
 > with the "always" than with the actual direction).
 > 
 > For modeline extents this is most often the wrong direction. it would
 > be better if the _lower_ left corner of the balloon frame would be
 > roughly at the height of the mouse. 

The upper left corner is the only corner for which ballon-help
has even remotely accurate coordinate information.  If the balloon
is always displayed SE, then it will never be under the mouse.
It might be off the screen, but such is life. :)

