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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Balloon-help on modeline anyhow?
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Jens Lautenbacher writes:
 > 
 > balloon-hellp seems not to react on the modeline. As far as I
 > understand, it should take the help-echo text (which seems also be
 > used in the modeline, eg. "button2 toggles the buffers's readonly
 > status" which is displayed in the echo area when moving the mouse over
 > the left part of the modeline) and display this as a balloon frame.
 > 
 > Does anybody know how to achieve this?

balloon-help does not query the 'help-echo property at all.  It
only looks for the 'balloon-help property on extents.

 > Another problem: Currently I am only able to make use of this property
 > for extents containing text. How can I put a help-echo string to a
 > glyph? (in other words, I want the text to be echoed -- if possible,
 > by balloon-help -- when moving the mouse over an image.)

glyphs must be associated with an extent to be displayed.  So if
you set the balloon-help property on the extent that is associated
with the glyph and balloon-help is supposed to notice it.

