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Other Improvements HTML Bubble Help Most of the controls on an Alpha Five form allow you to define bubble help that is displayed when the mouse hovers over the control. You can now use HTML to define the bubble help. This gives you enormous control over how the bubble help will look. HTML Bubble Help can display data from the current record (including images) and it can contain hyperlinks that execute Xbasic code. This allows you to create dynamic bubble help and expand the ways in which bubble help can be used.
For example, bubble help can now be used to display more detail for a particular object on a form. Say for example, your form contains an image field. To conserve space on the form, you might have defined the image object to be quite small. You can define bubble help for this image object to display a larger view of the image when the mouse is over the image. Or you might have bubble help that displays additional detail about the record you are viewing.
Note: You can now also specify the delay before the bubble help is displayed for each control. This is useful because bubble help now can have several different purposes. In some cases, it is intended to give help to a user who might not be sure what a particular control's purpose is. In this case a small delay before showing the help is appropriate. In other cases, bubble help might be to show a larger image for a thumbnail image, or more details about a particular record. In these cases, you might not want any delay before showing the bubble help.
The Bubble Help Editor has been redesigned for Version 9. When you define Bubble Help for a control, click the 'Edit...' button to bring up the Bubble Help Editor. You can choose the bubble help style. With each selection, the editor changes to present the appropriate options to the user.
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