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Subject: Re: Help Mgr and HyperCard
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In article <33740@usc.edu>, kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes...
> 
>I just got finished adding balloon help to one of my stacks (using an
>XCMD that calls HMShowBalloon). It works passably well. It is very slow
>because the calls to the XCMD are triggered by MouseEnter messages.

Don't have any answers on the menu question, but I did post a request
recently for BalloonHelp info, so here are a few comments:

I haven't seen HMSShowBalloon yet ... but BalloonHelp (Eric Baumgartner)
and ShowBalloon (Paul Snively - DTS) seem to display their balloons
almost as fast as the Help Manager displays the Help balloons for windows
and Finder menus.  This is on an SE/30 ...

If there is a speed difference, its probably do to the fact that the 
externals try to position the tip of the balloon over the last mouse loc, 
whereas the Finder help balloons always appear in the same place.

-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)