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From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Subject: Re: Context Sensitive Help
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.040125.2304@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 04:01:25 GMT
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nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: 
>As far as I can tell the help callback *always* goes to the
>widget with the keyboard focus.

Right.

>  This makes it impossible to
>get help on anything that doesn't get the focus, and it also
>makes mouse-based help impossible. 

No, just difficult; you just can't rely on the help callback mechanism.  
You have to find the mouse, associate its location with a piece of your 
application, and then do the help.