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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How to check if Balloon Help is active?
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Date: 12 Jun 91 23:20:52 GMT
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In article <56005@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
> Is it possible to create a stack that uses Balloon Help?  I have written
> a stack that displays help text when the user option-clicks a screen
> object.  It would be nice to add a mouseWithin option that could be
> active iff Balloon Help is turned on.

You'd need an XFCN. It wouldn't be big or difficult to write; it would 
just call the Toolbox routine to find out whether Balloon Help is on 
(sorry, I've forgotten the name and don't have IM VI handy) and return the 
result.

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