Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

[Sven Hammarling]

Nappi Chris-ra5809 wrote:
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>I have noticed that pop-up help balloons exhibit one or two problems >>(depending on the program) when using the built-in rootless WM:
>>>
>>>Some balloons to not go to the background when a Windows window is >>brought to the front.
>>>
>>>Other balloons actually come to the front when the mouse is over the >>object that creates them *through a Windows window*.  
>>>
>>>I should note that the applications I am seeing this with are running on >>Solaris - I don't have any native Cygwin apps that have pop-up balloons.
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>>What programs are these? Is the problem reproducable with common 
>>windowing toolkits like KDE, GTK, Xt or Motif?
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>>Otherwise it will be hard to determine how to fix this.
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> The programs I am using are Debussy (a silicon design tool which appears to be C/Motif?) and a proprietary Perl/TK program.
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> Luckily I found that the balloon.pl demo for Tk located in:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/Tk/demos/widtrib
> exhibits the problem.  
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> Launch that demo, look at where the "Menu button" button is, put IE(or whatever) in front and place the mouse over where the menu button is.  You should get a popup saying "Press and hold this button...".  
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> I verified this works when the balloon.pl script is run under Cygwin or Solaris.
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> Thanks!
> Chris Nappi
> 
Just as a second example, I also get the popup balloons through native Windows 
applications running 'XWin -multiwindow' on Windows XP SP2 with the Cygwin build 
of Emacs - the mode line menu shows through.

Sven Hammarling.