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Article #9057Re: Detecting secondary component selection
From: John P. McGrath
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:00
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:51:45 -0400, James Cook wrote:
> I would like to implement context sensitive help on my Java screens,
> the way it is sometimes done in Windows. They allow the user to
> click on a button (this I can do), the cursor changes (got it
> covered), then the user clicks on a field, label, text, combo,
> whatever (don't know how), and a popup explains the feature
> (know how).
Have you looked at the JavaHelp API? This provides code that does
exactly what you want. It is available at:
http://www.java.sun.com/products/javahelp/index.html
Even if you cannot use the library itself, the source code would provide
an example of how to code it yourself.
--
John P. McGrath
<JPMcGrath@fast.net>
<jpm@nscs.fast.net>
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