Balloon Help

Status: Alpha

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#1 Balloon Help

Status: open

Owner: Gadi Bergman

Labels: Interface Improvements (example) (2)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2006-12-27

Created: 2006-10-02

Creator: schella

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If you could add balloon help, especially to the
"record now" interface, that would be great. Simple and
awesome program!

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Gadi Bergman - 2006-12-27

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Gadi Bergman - 2006-12-27

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Thank you for your compliments again.
I am sorry, but I am not familiar with programming balloon help.
Are you?

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schella - 2007-01-02

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Yes, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_help

Essentially, balloon help is this - if you hover your mouse for about 1 second over a certain button, the computer displays a short one-sentence or one-word description of what that button does. Most development environments just require you to set the balloon-help-text property (or something similar) to the appropriate text.

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Gadi Bergman - 2007-05-12

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According to my research, balloon help is not integrated in MFC and is quite difficult to implement. One has to build the following infrastructure:
1. Start counting time when the mouse is over a region that has a tip to display and abort the count if the mouse leaves the region.
2. Drawing a tool tip window and deleting it after a specified time frame.

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