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Subject: Re: time-el 1.3 / bug in balloon-help & transparent pixmaps ?
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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:07:52 +0100
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

>  > But can't we just add (subtract?) the frameheight * charheight pixels
>  > if over the modeline -- we asume fixed.width and height fonts anyway? [1]
>  > (so it will still be moved to the right of the mouse, but to the north
>  > instead of the south)
> 
> The little mouse arrow usually points toward the sun in GUI-land,
> i.e. northwest.  This means the thing the user is looking/pointing at
> is least likely to be overlapped if the balloon is displayed in the
> opposite direction, i.e. southeast.  So I'd rather keep the balloon
> southeast.

Only when over the modeline? (I /know/ you've tried time-1.3, so
you'll know why I need it... :-))

       JTL
 

