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Chapter 3 - Help Manager

Help Manager Reference

This section describes the data structures, routines, and resources that are specific to the Help Manager.

The "Data Structures" section shows the data structures for the help message record and the Help Manager string list record. The "Help Manager Routines" section describes routines for determining Balloon Help status, displaying and removing help balloons, adding items to the Help menu, getting and setting the name and size of the font for help messages, setting and getting information for your application's help resources, determining the size of a help balloon, and getting the message of a help balloon. Should you want to replace the Help Manager's default balloon definition function and tip function with your own functions, the "Application-Defined Routines" section describes how. The "Resources" section describes the resources you can create to provide help balloons for your menus, alert and dialog boxes, and static windows; you can also create resources to override default help balloons provided by system software for various interface elements such as non-document Finder icons.

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Subtopics

Data Structures

Help Manager Routines

Application-Defined Routines

Resources