Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!ucsd!nosc!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ux1.lbl.gov!osborn From: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: removing balloon help.... Message-ID: <14186@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 11 Jun 91 22:16:58 GMT References: <14550@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Jun10.190032.3928@waikato.ac.nz> <1991Jun11.092015.13689@cs.uri.edu> Reply-To: osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 38 X-Local-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 15:16:58 PDT In article <1991Jun11.092015.13689@cs.uri.edu> reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew Reynhout) writes: >In article <1991Jun10.190032.3928@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: >>I don't think it's a good idea trying to remove the balloon help menu >>and icon. I've already found one piece of information that you can't easily >>get from the system otherwise. >> >>Hint: it's in the "About This Macintosh..." display. > > On a related note, does anyone know if there's an easy way to identify the >"activate areas" of balloon help? Is it plainly visible from within ResEdit? >(The only sys7-aware thing I run presently is the finder, and ResEdit won't let >you edit that while it's running...) > > Also, after having searched the "About this Macintosh..." display, I can't >find anything of interest here. Unless you're talking about getting a integer >value of the RAM a given application uses, rather than the standard bargraph.. > > Andrew >-- > The thing that I found interesting is that it tells you how much memory the applications are CURRENTLY USING out of their partition size. The only way I could see to get this information was with the balloon help on within the "About this Macintosh..." window. Kind of a useful feature. Maybe this should appear somehow without needing Balloon help on. Perhaps holding the option key should display the current memory usage for each appication in the window. -- James .------------------------------.--------------------------------------. | James R. Osborn | It just goes to show you it's always | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | something. Either it's baffling | | osborn@ux1.lbl.gov | tech notes or your mac is smoking. | | (415) 548-8464 | It's always something... | '------------------------------'--------------------------------------'