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From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.155449.22170@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:54:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.142433.23341@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>In article <NEERI.91Jun14134647@iis.ethz.ch> neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes:
>>    So, if you want to know how to type a non-breaking hyphen in <Insert your
>>favorite Word processor>, you fire up your interactive Computer Based Training
>>aid ?
>
>Explain to me how balloon help will tell me how to type a non-breaking hyphen.
>To what shall I point?

I think the point is that the menu is not just a "balloon help" menu, it's a
"generic help" menu. Notice how the finder adds an item to that menu.
I haven't looked at that section of IM VI yet, but it should be possible
for other applications to add their help selections to that menu.
This would save users from "wandering help syndrome". (Help is under "Windows"
in application X, under the Apple menu in application Y, a sub-item under
the "About Box" of application Z, under the "Utilities" menu of application
W, etc.)

Robert
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Robert K. Shull
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu