How Pop-Up Hot Spots Appear in Help

After you build the Help file, users can identify pop-up hot spots in two ways:

nBy default, pop-up hot spots (if they are not invisible) appear as green, dotted-underlined text.

nWhen the mouse pointer moves over a pop-up hot spot, the pointer changes from an arrow to a hand. This change occurs whether or not the hot spot is visible.

In the sample pop-up window in Figure 8.x, the first paragraph includes a pop-up hot spot that displays a pop-up window when chosen. The words “Pop-up text” appear in the pop-up window.

To see the pop-up window, the user clicks the hot spot, which causes the window to appear directly on top of the current topic, as in Figure 8.x.

The pop-up window includes a shadow to make it more distinguishable from the main window, and it remains open until the user clicks the left mouse button again or presses any key (which includes choosing a hot spot within the pop-up window).