What is a balloon to help?

One of the earliest innovations in help help with the help of a desktop help was the help balloon with a simple and entertaining visual tool that allowed users to ask some aspects of the program and receive a response from the built -in help files included in the software. The designation of the tool as a help balloon was due to the visual similarity of the Balloon Help with balloons commonly used in comic strips to provide the visual image of words that the characters in the cartoon panel. Designed to be fun to use and provide simple to understand the response, the help balloon was awarded by some users and praised by others.

One of the first examples of help in the software was Balloon Help, which Apple introduced in the operating system System 7 over the 80s. The intention was to allow the cursor to move via the button or icon to the toolibared and get more aboutwhat the button would do. The explanation would go a little for a quick description of One Word, which was soothing and useful for people who were just starting to use with the use of new personal computer technology. Instead of learning that a particular icon should have allowed copying, the balloon can help explain that the button was to copy the selected text to the clipboard. Rather than simply identify the button as a Paste function, the Balloon Help would go a little further and stated that the button would allow any text that is currently in the clipboard, inserted into the document.

While some users enjoyed this feature, others complained that the help function was slowly used, tied up a lot of system resources and sometimes freezing the computer, so it is necessary to turn off the hard disk and restart the system. In the case of Apple's help balloons, the FeA seems to have not been made by any improvements by 2001 Balloon Help was no longer available on Apple operating systems.

inFor years, the concept of the help balloon has been incorporated and improved into Microsoft help and it seems that it does not experience the same level of problems as Apple's earlier approach. As a general help with help with help, the HELP balloon continues to provide a quick and easy way to learn more about a specific function using a simple mouse sliding.