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Old 08-31-2011, 06:26 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
Unless I'm reading it wrong (and that's possible) itimpi is stating that as implemented in calibre the popups are system level and in an answer to the OP the only way to turn them off is at the operating system level.
We're talking slightly at cross purposes. Yes, balloon help is a system facility. What I'm saying is that it's an API which can be (in fact, which HAS to be) enabled or disabled by the application programmer. You don't get balloon help in an application unless you write the program code which enables it.

It's entirely possible that it's enabled by default by the programming toolkit (Qt?) which Calibre uses; I'm sure that Kovid can answer that question.
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