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From: smoke@well.sf.ca.us (Nicholas Jackiw)
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Subject: Re: Help balloon in the Finder for my own app
Summary: It's all there in IM#6
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Date: 8 Apr 91 16:16:35 GMT
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In article <27FCD7B6.11348@orion.oac.uci.edu> bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:
>
>[Finder presents TeachText application balloon.]
>I haven't seen how to make a balloon like this for my own application
>
>Has anyone done this?

Well, the folks who wrote TeachText obviously have.  If you have 7.0b4,
check out Inside Mac#VI, Chapter 11.  In brief you add a resource to your
application,

resource 'hfdr' (-5696) {HelpMgrVersion, hmDefaultOptions, 0,0,
    {HelpType  {Argument}}};

where
HelpType=
HMStringItem (Argument=Pascal string)
HMPicItem (Argument=PICT ResId}
HMStringResItem (Argument=STR# ResId)
HMTEResItem (Argument=TEXT&styl res id)
HMSTRResItem (Argument=STR res id)

There are some more which I forget.  You'll have to root around in Types.r
or Balloons.p to find the actual values of these constants.

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