Re: Possible to show tooltip at (point) ????

[Kevin Burton]

Yeah...

I'm about to take the family to the beach but I will look when I get home....

http://www.dr-qubit.org/predictive/user-guide/html/Completion-Tooltip.html#Completion-Tooltip

I *think* what they're doing is bringing up the tooltip based on a keyboard event which *CAN* get the absolute x/y coords.

I have a different goal which is to show the tooltip during idle timeout or when you enter an overlay.

Specifically, I'm writing a just in time compiler which compiles files right after you save the and highlights your errors in red.

Anyway.... I'll look at the source and report back.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Mathias Dahl <address@hidden> wrote:

I am a user of `predictive' which in my opinion has good facilities
for showing candidates. I think even that the completion stuff has
been factored out in its own package. I think it uses tooltips as one
of the options. Why don't you check it out.


2008/12/28, Kevin Burton <address@hidden>:

> A few years ago (has it REALLY been that long?) I was playing with
> x-show-tooltip so that I could display a tooltip at the given point.
>
> I was mostly interested in this so that I could build just in time code
> completion.  This way one could have a function call:
>
> foo(
>
> And type something like C-enter to lookup the previous symbol and show
> method argument documentation in a tooltip.
>
> ..... anyway.
>
> I needed away to have x-show-tooltip generate under (point).  Is this
> possible?
>
> If I remember I can manually position the tooltip if I know the on screen
> x/y pixel cartesian position of (point) but I don't think this was possible
> either.
>
> This was with an early version Emacs 21...  Anyone know a solution to this?
>  Have features been added to Emacs 22 to enable this?
>
> Kevin
>
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