Re: [Freemint-discuss] XaAES' integrated BubbleGEM

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

I haven't been a fan of this feature / integration, it comes from Helmut's
era. I do remember seeing it in action, though. So maybe as the first step,
maybe try some older FreeMiNT release(s) ?

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 10:37, Jo Even Skarstein via Freemint-discuss <
fre...@li...> wrote:

> 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
>
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