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From: carlc@clemson.edu (Bobby Clark)
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Subject: Re: How to check if Balloon Help is active?
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.144807.10297@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:48:07 GMT
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In article <14044@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>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.

Could you use BallonWriter, an application that installs help ballon into other
applications, to put help into a Stack?


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