I'm finally actually programming in Morphic instead of just wishing I had the time, and will be probably asking lots of stupid questions for a while.
I've built menus with balloon help but the balloons only appear when the menu is traversed with no key down. That is, when an Option-Click (on the Mac) pops up the menu and one keeps holding the button down to select there is no balloon help.
If the menu is Option-Clicked and forced to stay up then one can get balloon help by moving the pointer over the menu.
I've found a way to do selection with Option-Click-Drag, or keep the menu up with Option-Click and see the help, but it requires another menu item to dismiss the menu if no other selection is made. (Further, the little menus can easily get 'lost' behind windows so I have had to keep track of each menu so that they can be closed later if the user doesn't do it.)
All of this works, but seems a lot more effort that I had hoped. Is there any way to get balloon help to appear during an Option-Click-Drag operation?
Thanks!
Dave _______________________________ David N. Smith IBM T J Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY _______________________________ Any opinions or recommendations herein are those of the author and not of his employer.
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