[Freemint-discuss] XaAES' integrated BubbleGEM

[Jo E. S. <jo...@on...>]

How is this supposed to work? While debugging some AV-stuff I noticed that my application was sent BUBBLEGEM_REQUEST messages even though BubbleGEM was not installed. Turned out that I had enabled the XaAES built-in BubbleGEM replacement by mistake ages ago. But then it struck me - I haven't seen any bubbles in any applications. So I looked into it a bit closer.

- Like BubbleGEM, XaAES sends BUBBLEGEM_REQUEST messages to the owner of the window the mouse currently hovers above.
- BubbleGEM put's it's own (the BubbleGEM "server") in msg[1], XaAES puts the apid of the owner of the window here.
- appl_find("BUBBLE  ") returns apid 4 if no actual "BUBBLE  " application is running. However, sending BUBBLEGEM_SHOW messages to this apid does not do anything.

In short, I could not figure out how to get XaAES to actually show a bubble.

Jo Even