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Re: Question Mark


  • Subject: Re: Question Mark
  • From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:10:33 -0700

On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 07:30 PM, Rosyna wrote:

Whats that question mark that appears when you hit the help key in Cocoa apps?

It's the help cursor. The idea is, you hit the help key, click on what you want explained, and you get an explanation. It's a holdover from NeXTSTEP, but as I recall, nobody really bothered to implement it on NeXT, either.

-jcr


"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.


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