# HG changeset patch
# User Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
# Date 1006888740 0
# Node ID 6bc4823a332add389e6aff6cf66c6dcda7c7a507
# Parent  83f879e8667556ac63001c682b836dac2f6e7c75
Added note about display refresh while dialogs and pop-up menus are
active on Windows.

diff -r 83f879e86675 -r 6bc4823a332a etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Nov 27 18:03:29 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Nov 27 19:19:00 2001 +0000
@@ -299,7 +299,12 @@
 Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images and the tool bar.
 Support for these will be added in future versions.
 
-Help text for pop-up menu items is not displayed at all.
+Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
+is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menu items is not
+displayed at all.  This is because message handling under Windows is
+synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
+waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
+pop-up menu interaction.
 
 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first