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Chapter 3 - Help Manager / Help Manager Reference

Data Structures

You can use two data structures to specify a help message to the HMShowBalloon function.

You use the help message record to describe the format and location of a help
message. You specify the help message record as a parameter to the HMShowBalloon function.

If the message you want to pass to the HMShowBalloon function is stored in a string list ('STR#') resource, you use a Help Manager string list record to specify the resource ID of a string list as well as an index to one of the strings in that list. You specify a Help Manager string list record in a field of a help message record.

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Subtopics

The Help Message Record

The Help Manager String List Record