[comp.sys.mac.system] Giving Balloon Help the Axe

bhatlas@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Sunil Bhatla) (05/25/91)

For those concerned with menu bar real estate, or tired of looking at
balloon help, or just aesthetics...

Using Resedit, open up the MENUs resource in the System file and
delete the one with ID -16490. Presto! No more Balloon Help! And even
Superclock saunters over nicely to occupy that space.

So far this hasn't caused me any problems, your mileage may vary...

By the way, I'm no expert on these things, so do this at your own risk
(any *real* experts care to comment?)

Sunil.




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ph@ssd.kodak.com (Pete Hoch) (06/05/91)

bhatlas@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Sunil Bhatla) writes:
>For those concerned with menu bar real estate, or tired of looking at
>balloon help, or just aesthetics...

Concerned about menu bar real estate?  Obviously you have not needed
that real estate yet, because if you did the balloon help icon hides
itself.  So what is the problem?  I like having system supported help.
I will like it a lot more when applications start putting their
help commands there and then I won't have to guess, "Is it in the Apple
Menu?", "Is it in the File Menu?", "How about the Special Menu?".  One
place for help all the time every time, I like it.

Pete

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macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) (06/05/91)

In an article ph@ssd.kodak.com (Pete Hoch) rambles:

>>For those concerned with menu bar real estate, or tired of looking at
>>balloon help, or just aesthetics...

>Concerned about menu bar real estate?  Obviously you have not needed
>that real estate yet, because if you did the balloon help icon hides
>itself.  So what is the problem?  I like having system supported help.

I must agree completely. When I don't understand something, instead of
picking up a manual, I like selecting Help from Pagemaker, or Word, or any
program that has a help option for that matter.  And someday soon, nearly
all our programs will have their Help options in the HELP MENU.

- Chris


 
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