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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Standards for Balloon Help?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.132122.27740@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 13:21:22 GMT
References: <1CE00001.h2b15n@avalon.caladan.wa.com>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <1CE00001.h2b15n@avalon.caladan.wa.com> stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes:
>
>Why..?  Once you've seen it, you've seen it...!  An obvious user interface
>flaw is the "Help" key on the Extended Keyboards.. doesn't turn on
>or off balloon help.. nor does Command-Help.. what the world really
>needs is a keyboard shortcut to turn the item on or off, and if that
>be the case, why not trash the icon?  Why not a key to turn on or
>off the display of the menu item?

For those that haven't seen them yet, there are already several
Extensions out which will allow you to turn Balloon Help on and off from
the keyboard.  HelpMeister uses "Control-Help" to toggle, and Helium
allows you to assign your own Help key.  Both are VERY useful for those
'spot-check' items you can't recall when needed.
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