commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) (05/22/91)
According to Apple, Balloon Help is a very cool feature for first time users. Unfortunately for the rest of us, those reminders like "this is a close box" and "a hard disk is used to stores files" become aggravating very quickly. Anyway, I think Balloon Help is a cool idea, if only it were changed a bit. Two thoughts come to mind: 1) Levels of Balloon Help (beginner (all help) vs. expert (application specific only)...) 2) Using the help key (or something else) to activate Balloon Help on the fly What do other people think? -- Peter Commons commons@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University
weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) (05/22/91)
In article <1991May21.223544.6989@neon.Stanford.EDU> commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons) writes: >1) Levels of Balloon Help (beginner (all help) vs. expert (application specific > only)...) >2) Using the help key (or something else) to activate Balloon Help on the fly > >What do other people think? This people likes both ideas. As an addition, possibly there could be multiple levels of help available on individual applications (the vendors would have to decide that, though), which would give different kinds of help to an advanced user than a beginner ("advanced" in this context refers to the familiarity with the particular application, not the Mac interface in general). -- \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / - Michael Weiss weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu | School of Engineering and - - izzydp5@oac.ucla.edu | Applied Science, UCLA - / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \