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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: 20.0: recipe for frame crash
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Steven L. Baur writes:
 > Kyle Jones writes:
 > 
 > > Steven L. Baur writes:
 > >> Can we disable popups entirely in the short term?  What code depends
 > >> on them?
 > 
 > > I believe Ben added them specifically at my request for
 > > balloon-help.  I'd be surprised if anything else used them.
 > 
 > Can you live with the restriction that you are forbidden to delete
 > XEmacs frames that have live popups around?  I think I have a patch
 > for that.

Yes.  I can make balloon-help use a junk unmapped frame as its
parent if it comes to that.  If it isn't visible the user isn't
likely to try and delete it and see whatever error it is that you
devised.  On the other hand, I wonder if having an unmapped frame
around will slow down redisplay any.

