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Re: Tooltips

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Subject: Re: Tooltips
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 12:46:13 +0100
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by: Steve Fryatt - Sat, 6 Aug 2022 11:46 UTC

On 6 Aug, Chris Hughes wrote in message
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> Well Fireworkz and messenegr pro seem to have tool tips.
>
> It seems it per app basis. ask the programmers.

RISC OS has no support for tooltips. If an application includes them, then
either it's using a library to do it, or its developer has invented their
own wheel from scratch.

Interactive Help is system-wide, and probably the best way to go as it gives
a standard behaviour to users across all applications.

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