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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <14058@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 22:10:24 GMT
References: <1CE00001.hznrnc@avalon.caladan.wa.com>
Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <1CE00001.hznrnc@avalon.caladan.wa.com> stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes:
>
>If we are to believe Apple, the Classic and the LC are destined to
>rule the world, in which case the "standard" config is small screen.
>In this world it makes sense for first time users to have access to
>Balloon help, but it is absolute lunacy to provide no way to turn
>this off either on an application specific or on a global basis!

The System 7 designers thought of this problem, since the help menu goes
away by itself if other menus need that space.  As for menu bar clocks, if
menu bar space is so tight on a small screen, then one wouldn't want to use
a menu bar clock at all.

>there, and why of why didn't they put it under the Applications menu..
>safely out of the way?  Surely Apple expected that the first major

Developers are encouraged to put their own help items there (rather than in
the Apple menu, or in a hierarchical menu, or in the about box, or ...).
The Finder does this already.  You would lose access to these items without
the help menu.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)