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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: Balloon Help Idea
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Date: 4 Jun 91 22:23:50 GMT
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Owen M. Hartnett writes in a message to All

OMH> 3) (special balloon help menu setting:) Balloon help on only 
OMH> when shift key (or other key which acts like the shift key) is 
OMH> down. This way you could leave balloon help semi-on all the time, 
OMH> and when you wanted to check something out, just hold down the 
OMH> trigger key. 

That last would have an intuitive feature: select show ballons with an arbitrary
trigger key and that is what you get: a trigger-keyed ballon. It would work,
no matter which key you used as the trigger: just hold the original key down.



Lawson
 

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