Balloon Help for Icons
chooses Show Balloons from the Help menu, de scriptive help balloons appear
when the user moves the cursor to an area of the screen (such as a menu, a
window control, or a dialog box) that has a help resource associated with it.
system extension, and desk accessory icons. You can provide a customized help
balloon for your application, control panel, system extension, or desk
accessory icon by adding an 'hfdr' resource with resource ID -5696 to the
resource fork of your application. The following figure compares the default
help balloon with a customized help balloon for a sample application icon.
Default and customized help balloons for application icons
associated 'STR ' resource that are used for the customized help balloon in this
figure.
Creating a help balloon resource for an application icon
resource 'hfdr' (-5696, purgeable) { /* help for app icon */
HelpMgrVersion, hmDefaultOptions, 0, 0, /* header information */
{
HMSTRResItem { /* use 'STR ' resource 1001 */
1001
}
}
};
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application icon and for other elements of your application.