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Customizing the Desktop 1 Context Sensitive Menus

Many applications are distributed with context sensitive help. This is a short piece of text associated with most of the options in an application which can be accessed by right clicking the mouse on a control, and selecting “What’s This?” from the menu that appears.

Clicking on the “What’s This?” item displays some helpful text in a manner similar to a large tool tip.

Determining whether an application supports context sensitive help is very straightforward. If help is available, a “?” button will appear in the title bar. Clicking it turns the mouse cursor into a question mark; subsequently clicking a control within the same dialog will display the same context sensitive help as the “What’s This?” option.

It is generally potluck whether an application supports context sensitive help or not.

Customizing the Desktop 1 Context Sensitive Menus