On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 10:57 am, Andreas Heppel wrote:
different levels of help. To me it looks like we all know what we
want, but only name it differently. Let me resume a couple of points I
think we all more or less agree on:
- There is something we call tooltips, which is a very short
description of a control. This pops up automatically some time after
the mouse cursor starts to hover over an UI element and goes away
automatically, too.
This is clearly what NSHelpManager in MacOS-X is supposed to do ...
with the exception that you actually have to hold the 'help' key and
click on an item rather than just move the mouse over it.
I don't think there is an equivalent in OpenStep/NeXTstep as the action
of help-clicking an item was supposed to give you context sensitive
help there (which is presumably why NSHelpManager documentation talks
about context sensitive help when it really means tooltips).