How can I implement “bubble help” or “tool tips” with Motif?
[Last modified: Jan 02] Answer: Open Motif 2.2 includes a built-in ToolTips feature. The following material may be of interest to users of earlier versions of Motif. Gary Aviv (gary@compgen.com) informed this maintainer about the free LiteClue widget from Computer Generation, Inc. (http://www.compgen.com/). LiteClue is a widget which pops a one line help message when the user passes the pointer over another “watched” widget. This is known by various names in the industry such as hints, clues, tips, bubble help and balloon help. Technical documentation and source for the LiteClue widget are available from: http://www.compgen.com/widgets/LiteClue.html ftp://ftp.compgen.com/pub/widgets/LiteClue.tar.Z Ken Lee (http://www.rahul.net/kenton/) writes: A simple technique is to popup a shell containing your message whenever an enter event occurs (possibly delayed by a timer) and pop it down again after a leave event. David Lewis (dbl@ics.com) writes: To those resources I should add that the XmHT
