7.8.3 Displaying a topic in a pop-up window

WinHelp

For WinHelp, to make a topic pop up, assign property PopOver to the hotspot format:

[HelpStyles]

PopCharFmt = PopOver

See §8.9 Creating jumps and pop-ups for WinHelp.

HTML-based Help

If your HTML-based Help system has a Mif2Go-generated browse sequence, to avoid including pop-up topics in the browse sequence you must declare these topics to be extracts instead of splits; see §18.3 Extracting files.

HTML Help

For HTML Help, all you get is plain-text pop-ups, unless you use a third-party tool. To create a pop-up link in HTML Help, put the entire pop-up content (plain text only) in a FrameMaker hypertext alert marker embedded in the hotspot.

See §9.5 Creating pop-ups for HTML Help.

OmniHelp, JavaHelp, Oracle Help for java

For OmniHelp, JavaHelp, and Oracle Help for Java, you can use any HTML in pop-up topics, including graphics and jumps. To make a topic pop up, assign reserved window name popup to the hotspot format:

[SecWindows]

PopCharFmt = popup

See:

§10.9 Jumping to secondary windows in OmniHelp

§11.8 Defining windows for JavaHelp or Oracle Help.

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