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Popup covers the instruction
« Thread started on: Feb 11th, 2013, 11:53am »
Would it be possible to make the popup explanation (that appears after rightclicking on an instruction and selecting "What's this?") appear in such a way that it does not cover the instruction being examined?
This is because it's helpful to have the popup on the screen together with some of the instructions that use lists of numbers, like MODE, GCOL, INKEY, VDU…
For example if I'm examining MODE 20, it's easy to start reading about other modes in the list and forget what mode was it I'm looking for (was it 10 or 20?). In this case I'd have to make the popup disappear, find the MODE 20 instruction again (because my eyes moved from where it was while reading the list), remember an arbitrary number and then aim the word with the mouse again (because the mouse was probably moved in the meantime too) etc etc. Just a thought.
Would it be possible to make the popup explanation appear in such a way that it does not cover the instruction being examined?
I'm not sure. The popup is created using Microsoft's HTML Help sub-system and I have relatively little control over it. In some cases (when the popup window is quite big) it might be impossible to find anywhere to display it which won't cover the keyword, so what to do then?
It's annoying that the 'HTML Help' popups are less flexible than the old 'WinHelp' popups which BB4W used to use before Microsoft dropped support for WinHelp. For example you could print the old popups, which was sometimes very useful, but you can't print 'HTML Help' popups.
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