Re: Is it possible to update tooltip text?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Ye Wenbin wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wondering whether there is a function to update the text display in 
> the
> tooltip. Maybe the tooltip is not what I what, because I think tooltip will
> disappear when user input something. I want a frame the display text like
> tooltip, and I can update the text according to user's input and hide
> it when needed.
> I think such feature is useful, for example it can be used for displaying
> candicate expansions or using by input methods. I try x-show-tip, but
> the frame display and disappear too often.

I searched for something like that too, but finally (for some other 
reasons) decided to use an overlay instead. Maybe that was the wrong 
approach and if you manage to get tooltips to work for you as you wanted 
to above then please tell me.

My "overlay workaround" is in tabkey2.el:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/tabkey2.el