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- From: podenski@bcsaic.boeing.com (Patrick Podenski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Adding Balloon help
- Message-ID: <82370@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 22:13:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.144142.15473@bmers95.bnr.ca> <1992Sep4.162113.17663@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <1992Sep8.154613.10915@bmers95.bnr.ca>
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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- In article <1992Sep8.154613.10915@bmers95.bnr.ca> ross@bnr.ca (Ross Brown) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.162113.17663@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu
- >(Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- >>TidBITS doesn't seem to have anything about QuickTime in balloons.
- >>Leonard R.'s movie-for-a-finder-icon hack is mentioned (hey, Leonard,
- >>want to upload that somewhere?) but that's it.
- >
- >You're right, Jamie, the movie was in a Finder icon, not in a balloon. My
- >error. I think I'd rather see the movie in an icon, especially if you could
- >turn the movie on and off by selecting/deselecting the icon.
-
- I attempted to place a QuickTime movie in balloon help within a Prograph
- application. It was very easy to do because Prograph has a very nice
- built-in balloon editor. However, when I bring up the balloon, there is
- no way to go and activate the QuickTime movie. I am using Wild Magic,
- which has a small icon which must be clicked to deploy the QuickTime
- movie controls. Once you mouse out of the object to which the balloon
- help corresponds, the balloon goes away. Therefore, I cannot click on
- the Wild Magic icon.
-
- I certainly can see the value of QuickTime in balloon help. I hope that
- someone will make it possible.
-