Hi,
We have an application which users sometimes run without a mouse and
sometimes with. I want to assists users by proving case sensitive help. I’d
like to use the pop-up balloons but can’t, because they can only hold one
line of text and usually display the same text as the widget.
So I looked at using help in a balloon using the Pt_INTERNAL_HELP flag and
using the ‘?’ icon. This works great as long as users have a mouse to click
the ‘?’ icon and than the widget. But when they don’t…
In the helpfiles I have only found an example which sends a Ph_WM_HELP event
to the window from some callback, which again turns the mouse cursor into a
‘?’ . But it seems to me the user can’t apply this cursor to a specific
widget without a mouse.
How can I force a widget to display its inline help, either from:
- a widget hotkey callback, or
- a window hotkey callback which figures out which widget has focus
(and please don’t be too hard on my limited photon knowledge, I just
returned to Photon programming after a 5 year break 
Thanks,
Onno Willems
The Netherlands
Hey all you Photon guru’s! Were have you gone?
Are there some other QNX4/Photon newsgroups?
Thanks,
Onno Willems
Vanderlande Industries
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Hi,
We have an application which users sometimes run without a mouse and
sometimes with. I want to assists users by proving case sensitive help.
I’d
like to use the pop-up balloons but can’t, because they can only hold one
line of text and usually display the same text as the widget.
So I looked at using help in a balloon using the Pt_INTERNAL_HELP flag and
using the ‘?’ icon. This works great as long as users have a mouse to
click
the ‘?’ icon and than the widget. But when they don’t…
In the helpfiles I have only found an example which sends a Ph_WM_HELP
event
to the window from some callback, which again turns the mouse cursor into
a
‘?’ . But it seems to me the user can’t apply this cursor to a specific
widget without a mouse.
How can I force a widget to display its inline help, either from:
- a widget hotkey callback, or
- a window hotkey callback which figures out which widget has focus
(and please don’t be too hard on my limited photon knowledge, I just
returned to Photon programming after a 5 year break >
Thanks,
Onno Willems
The Netherlands
Answer in qdn.public.photon newsgroup.
Onno Willems <Onno_Willems@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey all you Photon guru’s! Were have you gone? >
Are there some other QNX4/Photon newsgroups?
Thanks,
Onno Willems
Vanderlande Industries
“Onno Willems” <> Onno_Willems@hotmail.com> > wrote in message
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Hi,
We have an application which users sometimes run without a mouse and
sometimes with. I want to assists users by proving case sensitive help.
I’d
like to use the pop-up balloons but can’t, because they can only hold one
line of text and usually display the same text as the widget.
So I looked at using help in a balloon using the Pt_INTERNAL_HELP flag and
using the ‘?’ icon. This works great as long as users have a mouse to
click
the ‘?’ icon and than the widget. But when they don’t…
In the helpfiles I have only found an example which sends a Ph_WM_HELP
event
to the window from some callback, which again turns the mouse cursor into
a
‘?’ . But it seems to me the user can’t apply this cursor to a specific
widget without a mouse.
How can I force a widget to display its inline help, either from:
- a widget hotkey callback, or
- a window hotkey callback which figures out which widget has focus
(and please don’t be too hard on my limited photon knowledge, I just
returned to Photon programming after a 5 year break >
Thanks,
Onno Willems
The Netherlands