Re: [StrongED] Re: Bubblehelp conflict

[Jim Nagel <stred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Fryatt  wrote on 13 Sep:
> Both Float and BH [Bubblehelp] were written pre-RISC OS 4, when Help
> had a fixed window.

Miles Sabin was the original author of Bubblehelp, but Philip Ludlam 
updated it in the Ro4 days.  His latest version is 2.20, dated 2003.

> Float takes very little development time, so keeping it running on
> RISC OS 5 isn't a major hardship.

Any chance, Steve, of adding the "speech bubble" appearance that 
characterizes Bubblehelp as a further guise for Float (which already 
offers several formats)?  The bubble is sure more lively than a box.

I'm surmising that it'd be a "skin" thing, though I might be wrong.

Philip's source code is available at www.vigay.com/thirdparty
(search for Bubblehelp).  But Philip himself replied in this thread; 
perhaps he also has source code.


I'm still curious as to why Bubblehelp causes the system to freeze 
with StrongEd and apparently not other apps.  Maybe a 32-bit thing?


-- 
Jim Nagel                            www.archivemag.co.uk



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