Tips in the Help ToolKit have a wide range of configuration options. Hints Hints are textual messages that appear in a fixed location on a window when the mouse cursor moves over a given widget or gadget contained in that window. The Hints are displayed in a widget created and positioned by the application. The hint widget is frequently positioned in the lower-left corner of a window. This type of help is commonly used with menus and text fields.
Hints support a wide range of configuration options.
When using the Help ToolKit, both Tips and Hints are automatically invoked as the mouse pointer moves over a screen object. Cues are automatically displayed as the keyboard focus changes. In fact, a sample CDE Help system plug-in is provided with XscHelp. The Help ToolKit also provides a rich API allowing help to be controlled and manipulated programmatically. These Help ToolKit resources can be configured via the resource database and, as a result, appear to be transparently inherited by the associated screen objects.