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authorGerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>1999-07-21 21:43:52 +0000
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+;;; tooltip.el --- Show tooltip windows
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;; Author: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@acm.org>
+;; Keywords: help c mouse tools
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+
+;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; Put into your `.emacs'
+
+;; (require 'tooltip)
+;; (tooltip-mode 1)
+
+
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(eval-when-compile
+ (require 'cl)
+ (require 'comint)
+ (require 'gud))
+
+(provide 'tooltip)
+
+
+;;; Customizable settings
+
+(defgroup tooltip nil
+ "Customization group for the `tooltip' package."
+ :group 'help
+ :group 'c
+ :group 'mouse
+ :group 'tools
+ :tag "Tool Tips")
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-delay 1.0
+ "Seconds to wait before displaying a tooltip the first time."
+ :tag "Delay"
+ :type 'number
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-short-delay 0.1
+ "Seconds to wait between subsequent tooltips on different items."
+ :tag "Short delay"
+ :type 'number
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-recent-seconds 1
+ "Display tooltips after `tooltip-short-delay' if changing tip items
+within this many seconds."
+ :tag "Recent seconds"
+ :type 'number
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-frame-parameters
+ '((name . "tooltip")
+ (foreground-color . "black")
+ (background-color . "lightyellow")
+ (internal-border-width . 5)
+ (border-color . "lightyellow")
+ (border-width . 1))
+ "Frame parameters used for tooltips."
+ :type 'sexp
+ :tag "Frame Parameters"
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-gud-tips-p nil
+ "Non-nil means show tooltips in GUD sessions."
+ :type 'boolean
+ :tag "GUD"
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-gud-modes '(gud-mode c-mode c++-mode)
+ "List of modes for which to enable GUD tips."
+ :type 'sexp
+ :tag "GUD modes"
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+(defcustom tooltip-gud-display
+ '((eq (tooltip-event-buffer tooltip-gud-event)
+ (marker-buffer overlay-arrow-position)))
+ "List of forms determining where GUD tooltips are displayed.
+
+Forms in the list are combined with AND. The default is to display
+only tooltips in the buffer containing the overlay arrow."
+ :type 'sexp
+ :tag "GUD buffers predicate"
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+
+;;; Variables that are not customizable.
+
+(defvar tooltip-hook nil
+ "Functions to call to display tooltips.
+Each function is called with one argument EVENT which is a copy of
+the last mouse movement event that occurred.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-timeout-id nil
+ "The id of the timeout started when Emacs becomes idle.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-last-mouse-motion-event nil
+ "A copy of the last mouse motion event seen.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-hide-time nil
+ "Time when the last tooltip was hidden.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-mode nil
+ "Non-nil means tooltip mode is on.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-gud-debugger nil
+ "The debugger for which we show tooltips.")
+
+
+
+;;; Event accessors
+
+(defun tooltip-event-buffer (event)
+ "Return the buffer over which event EVENT occurred.
+This might return nil if the event did not occur over a buffer."
+ (let ((window (posn-window (event-end event))))
+ (and window (window-buffer window))))
+
+
+
+;;; Switching tooltips on/off
+
+;; We don't set track-mouse globally because this is a big redisplay
+;; problem in buffers having a pre-command-hook or such installed,
+;; which does a set-buffer, like the summary buffer of Gnus. Calling
+;; set-buffer prevents redisplay optimizations, so every mouse motion
+;; would be accompanied by a full redisplay.
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun tooltip-mode (&optional arg)
+ "Mode for tooltip display.
+With ARG, turn tooltip mode on if and only if ARG is positive."
+ (interactive "P")
+ (let* ((on (if arg
+ (> (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0)
+ (not tooltip-mode)))
+ (hook-fn (if on 'add-hook 'remove-hook)))
+ (setq tooltip-mode on)
+ (funcall hook-fn 'change-major-mode-hook 'tooltip-change-major-mode)
+ (tooltip-activate-mouse-motions-if-enabled)
+ (funcall hook-fn 'pre-command-hook 'tooltip-hide)
+ (funcall hook-fn 'tooltip-hook 'tooltip-gud-tips)
+ (funcall hook-fn 'tooltip-hook 'tooltip-help-tips)
+ (setq show-help-function (if on 'tooltip-show-help-function nil))
+ ;; `ignore' is the default binding for mouse movements.
+ (define-key global-map [mouse-movement]
+ (if on 'tooltip-mouse-motion 'ignore))
+ (when (and on tooltip-gud-tips-p)
+ (global-set-key [S-mouse-3] 'tooltip-gud-toggle-dereference)
+ (add-hook 'gdb-mode-hook
+ #'(lambda () (setq tooltip-gud-debugger 'gdb)))
+ (add-hook 'sdb-mode-hook
+ #'(lambda () (setq tooltip-gud-debugger 'sdb)))
+ (add-hook 'dbx-mode-hook
+ #'(lambda () (setq tooltip-gud-debugger 'dbx)))
+ (add-hook 'xdb-mode-hook
+ #'(lambda () (setq tooltip-gud-debugger 'xdb)))
+ (add-hook 'perldb-mode-hook
+ #'(lambda () (setq tooltip-gud-debugger 'perldb))))))
+
+
+
+;;; Timeout for tooltip display
+
+(defun tooltip-float-time ()
+ "Return the values of `current-time' as a float."
+ (let ((now (current-time)))
+ (+ (* 65536.0 (nth 0 now))
+ (nth 1 now)
+ (/ (nth 2 now) 1000000.0))))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-delay ()
+ "Return the delay in seconds for the next tooltip."
+ (let ((delay tooltip-delay)
+ (now (tooltip-float-time)))
+ (when (and tooltip-hide-time
+ (< (- now tooltip-hide-time) tooltip-recent-seconds))
+ (setq delay tooltip-short-delay))
+ delay))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-disable-timeout ()
+ "Disable the tooltip timeout."
+ (when tooltip-timeout-id
+ (disable-timeout tooltip-timeout-id)
+ (setq tooltip-timeout-id nil)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-add-timeout ()
+ "Add a one-shot timeout to call function tooltip-timeout."
+ (setq tooltip-timeout-id
+ (add-timeout (tooltip-delay) 'tooltip-timeout nil)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-timeout (object)
+ "Function called when timer with id tooltip-timeout-id fires."
+ (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'tooltip-hook
+ tooltip-last-mouse-motion-event))
+
+
+
+;;; Reacting on mouse movements
+
+(defun tooltip-change-major-mode ()
+ "Function added to `change-major-mode-hook' when tooltip mode is on."
+ (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'tooltip-activate-mouse-motions-if-enabled))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-activate-mouse-motions-if-enabled ()
+ "Reconsider for all buffers whether mouse motion events are desired."
+ (remove-hook 'post-command-hook 'tooltip-activate-mouse-motions-if-enabled)
+ (let ((buffers (buffer-list)))
+ (save-excursion
+ (while buffers
+ (set-buffer (car buffers))
+ (if (and tooltip-mode
+ tooltip-gud-tips-p
+ (memq major-mode tooltip-gud-modes))
+ (tooltip-activate-mouse-motions t)
+ (tooltip-activate-mouse-motions nil))
+ (setq buffers (cdr buffers))))))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-activate-mouse-motions (activatep)
+ "Activate/deactivate mouse motion events for the current buffer.
+ACTIVATEP non-nil means activate mouse motion events."
+ (if activatep
+ (progn
+ (make-local-variable 'track-mouse)
+ (setq track-mouse t))
+ (kill-local-variable 'track-mouse)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-mouse-motion (event)
+ "Command handler for mouse movement events in `global-map'."
+ (interactive "e")
+ (tooltip-hide)
+ (when (car (mouse-pixel-position))
+ (setq tooltip-last-mouse-motion-event (copy-sequence event))
+ (tooltip-add-timeout)))
+
+
+
+;;; Displaying tips
+
+(defun tooltip-show (text)
+ "Show a tooltip window at the current mouse position displaying TEXT."
+ (x-show-tip text (selected-frame) tooltip-frame-parameters))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-hide (&optional ignored-arg)
+ "Hide a tooltip, if one is displayed.
+Value is non-nil if tooltip was open."
+ (tooltip-disable-timeout)
+ (when (x-hide-tip)
+ (setq tooltip-hide-time (tooltip-float-time))))
+
+
+
+;;; Debugger-related functions
+
+(defun tooltip-identifier-from-point (point)
+ "Extract the identifier at POINT, if any.
+Value is nil if no identifier exists at point. Identifier extraction
+is based on the current syntax table."
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char point)
+ (let ((start (progn (skip-syntax-backward "w_") (point))))
+ (unless (looking-at "[0-9]")
+ (skip-syntax-forward "w_")
+ (when (> (point) start)
+ (buffer-substring start (point)))))))
+
+
+(defmacro tooltip-region-active-p ()
+ "Value is non-nil if the region is currently active."
+ (if (string-match "^GNU" (emacs-version))
+ `(and transient-mark-mode mark-active)
+ `(region-active-p)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-expr-to-print (event)
+ "Return an expression that should be printed for EVENT.
+If a region is active and the mouse is inside the region, print
+the region. Otherwise, figure out the identifier around the point
+where the mouse is."
+ (save-excursion
+ (set-buffer (tooltip-event-buffer event))
+ (let ((point (posn-point (event-end event))))
+ (if (tooltip-region-active-p)
+ (when (and (<= (region-beginning) point) (<= point (region-end)))
+ (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))
+ (tooltip-identifier-from-point point)))))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-process-prompt-regexp (process)
+ "Return regexp matching the prompt of PROCESS at the end of a string.
+The prompt is taken from the value of COMINT-PROMPT-REGEXP in the buffer
+of PROCESS."
+ (let ((prompt-regexp (save-excursion
+ (set-buffer (process-buffer process))
+ comint-prompt-regexp)))
+ ;; Most start with `^' but the one for `sdb' cannot be easily
+ ;; stripped. Code the prompt for `sdb' fixed here.
+ (if (= (aref prompt-regexp 0) ?^)
+ (setq prompt-regexp (substring prompt-regexp 1))
+ (setq prompt-regexp "\\*"))
+ (concat "\n*" prompt-regexp "$")))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-strip-prompt (process output)
+ "Return OUTPUT with any prompt of PROCESS stripped from its end."
+ (let ((prompt-regexp (tooltip-process-prompt-regexp process)))
+ (save-match-data
+ (when (string-match prompt-regexp output)
+ (setq output (substring output 0 (match-beginning 0)))))
+ output))
+
+
+
+;;; Tips for `gud'
+
+(defvar tooltip-gud-original-filter nil
+ "Process filter to restore after GUD output has been received.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-gud-dereference nil
+ "Non-nil means print expressions with a `*' in front of them.
+For C this would dereference a pointer expression.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-gud-event nil
+ "The mouse movement event that led to a tooltip display.
+This event can be examined by forms in TOOLTIP-GUD-DISPLAY.")
+
+
+(defvar tooltip-gud-debugger nil
+ "A symbol describing the debugger running under GUD.")
+
+
+(defun tooltip-gud-toggle-dereference ()
+ "Toggle whether tooltips should show `* exor' or `expr'."
+ (interactive)
+ (setq tooltip-gud-dereference (not tooltip-gud-dereference))
+ (when (interactive-p)
+ (message "Dereferencing is now %s."
+ (if tooltip-gud-dereference "on" "off"))))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-gud-process-output (process output)
+ "Process debugger output and show it in a tooltip window."
+ (set-process-filter process tooltip-gud-original-filter)
+ (tooltip-show (tooltip-strip-prompt process output)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-gud-print-command (expr)
+ "Return a suitable command to print the expression EXPR.
+If TOOLTIP-GUD-DEREFERENCE is t, also prepend a `*' to EXPR."
+ (when tooltip-gud-dereference
+ (setq expr (concat "*" expr)))
+ (case tooltip-gud-debugger
+ ((gdb dbx) (concat "print " expr))
+ (xdb (concat "p " expr))
+ (sdb (concat expr "/"))
+ (perldb expr)))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-gud-tips (event)
+ "Show tip for identifier or selection under the mouse. The mouse
+must either point at an identifier or inside a selected region for the
+tip window to be shown. If tooltip-gud-dereference is t, add a `*' in
+front of the printed expression.
+
+This function must return nil if it doesn't handle EVENT."
+ (let (gud-buffer process)
+ (when (and (eventp event)
+ tooltip-gud-tips-p
+ (boundp 'gud-comint-buffer)
+ (setq gud-buffer gud-comint-buffer)
+ (setq process (get-buffer-process gud-buffer))
+ (posn-point (event-end event))
+ (progn (setq tooltip-gud-event event)
+ (eval (cons 'and tooltip-gud-display))))
+ (let ((expr (tooltip-expr-to-print event)))
+ (when expr
+ (setq tooltip-gud-original-filter (process-filter process))
+ (set-process-filter process 'tooltip-gud-process-output)
+ (process-send-string
+ process (concat (tooltip-gud-print-command expr) "\n"))
+ expr)))))
+
+
+
+;;; Tooltip help.
+
+(defvar tooltip-help-message nil
+ "The last help message received via `tooltip-show-help-function'.")
+
+
+(defun tooltip-show-help-function (msg)
+ "Function installed as `show-help-function'.
+MSG is either a help string to display, or nil to cancel the display."
+ (let ((previous-help tooltip-help-message))
+ (setq tooltip-help-message msg)
+ (cond ((null msg)
+ (tooltip-hide))
+ ((or (not (stringp previous-help))
+ (not (string= msg previous-help)))
+ (tooltip-hide)
+ (tooltip-add-timeout))
+ (t
+ (tooltip-disable-timeout)
+ (tooltip-add-timeout)))))
+
+
+(defun tooltip-help-tips (event)
+ "Hook function to display a help tooltip.
+Value is non-nil if this function handled the tip."
+ (when (stringp tooltip-help-message)
+ (tooltip-show tooltip-help-message)
+ (setq tooltip-help-message nil)
+ t))
+
+
+
+;;; Do this after all functions have been defined that are called
+;;; from `tooltip-mode'.
+
+(defcustom tooltip-active nil
+ "*Non-nil means tooltips are active."
+ :tag "Activate tooltips"
+ :type 'boolean
+ :set #'(lambda (symbol value)
+ (set-default symbol value)
+ (tooltip-mode (or value 0)))
+ :require 'tooltip
+ :group 'tooltip)
+
+
+;;; tooltip.el ends here