299) How can I implement "bubble help" or "tool tips" with Motif?

[Last modified: Nov 96]

Answer:  Gary Aviv (gary@compgen.com) informed this maintainer about the free
LiteClue widget from Computer Generation, Inc. (http://www.compgen.com/).
LiteClue is a widget which pops a one line help message when the user passes
the pointer over another "watched" widget. This is known by various names in
the industry such as hints, clues, tips, bubble help and balloon help.
Technical documentation and source for the LiteClue widget are available from:

        http://www.compgen.com/widgets/LiteClue.html
        ftp://ftp.compgen.com/pub/widgets/LiteClue.tar.Z

Ken Lee (http://www.rahul.net/kenton/) writes:  A simple technique is to popup
a shell when enter/leave events occur.  Rick Evans wrote a tutorialfor the
July, 1995 issue of *The X Advisor*:

    http://www.unx.com/DD/advisor/docs/jul95/jul95.evans.shtml

Morris Hirsch (hirsch@cs.umass.edu) has another approach and contributed a
code example which is over 1000 lines, so I've put the code on our web site:

        http://www.cen.com/mw3/bubbleHelp.txt